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CVE-2018-7253

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The ParseDsdiffHeaderConfig function of the cli/dsdiff.c file of WavPack 5.1.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly overwrite the heap via a maliciously crafted DSDIFF file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 17.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• WavPack: 5.1.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889559
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/36a24c7881427d2e1e4dc1cef58f19eee0d13aec
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/28
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/37
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3578-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4125
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889559
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/36a24c7881427d2e1e4dc1cef58f19eee0d13aec
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/28
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/37

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