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CVE-2018-10536

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in WavPack 5.1.0 and earlier. The WAV parser component contains a vulnerability that allows writing to memory because ParseRiffHeaderConfig in riff.c does not reject multiple format chunks.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• WavPack: through 5.1.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/26cb47f99d481ad9b93eeff80d26e6b63bbd7e15
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/30
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/31
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/32
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CFFFWIWALGQPKINRDW3PRGRD5LOLGZA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRWQNE3TH5UF64IKHKKHVCHJHUOVKJUH/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/37
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3637-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4197
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/26cb47f99d481ad9b93eeff80d26e6b63bbd7e15

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