Bug#927903: wavpack: CVE-2019-11498: Uninitialized Read in WavpackSetConfiguration64()

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: wavpack
Version: 5.1.0-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/67

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for wavpack.

CVE-2019-11498[0]:
| WavpackSetConfiguration64 in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack
| through 5.1.0 has a "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
| value" condition, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of
| service (application crash) via a DFF file that lacks valid sample-
| rate data.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11498
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11498
[1] https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/67
[2] https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/bc6cba3f552c44565f7f1e66dc1580189addb2b4

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore