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CVE-2021-44269

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out of bounds read was found in Wavpack 5.4.0 in processing *.WAV files. This issue triggered in function WavpackPackSamples of file src/pack_utils.c, tainted variable cnt is too large, that makes pointer sptr read beyond heap bound.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
• WavPack: 5.4.0

References

• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/110
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2CZUFTX3J4Y4OSRITG4PXCI7NRVFDYVQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5B7L26LA6KGX7YH6SWD5CSBNWKV5MBO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CRZWZKEEABCLVXZEXQZBIT3ZKLIXVFF5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I54NXQZELBF42OL4KQZJJRAYZX7IPZXP/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQKOOJRI2VAPYS3652HVDXON723HTXBP/
• https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/110
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2CZUFTX3J4Y4OSRITG4PXCI7NRVFDYVQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5B7L26LA6KGX7YH6SWD5CSBNWKV5MBO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CRZWZKEEABCLVXZEXQZBIT3ZKLIXVFF5/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I54NXQZELBF42OL4KQZJJRAYZX7IPZXP/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SQKOOJRI2VAPYS3652HVDXON723HTXBP/

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