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Vulnerability · Published Mar 10, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-44269

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the wavpack package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8wavpack5.1.0-16.el8ALSA-2022:7558
AlmaLinux:9wavpack5.4.0-5.el9ALSA-2022:8139
AlmaLinux:8wavpack-devel5.1.0-16.el8ALSA-2022:7558
AlmaLinux:9wavpack-devel5.4.0-5.el9ALSA-2022:8139
Alpine:v3.20wavpack5.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44269
Alpine:v3.21wavpack5.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44269
Alpine:v3.22wavpack5.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44269
Alpine:v3.23wavpack5.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44269
Alpine:v3.24wavpack5.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44269
Debian:12wavpack5.5.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44269
Debian:13wavpack5.5.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44269
Debian:14wavpack5.5.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44269
Rocky Linux:8wavpack0:5.1.0-16.el8RLSA-2022:7558
Rocky Linux:9wavpack0:5.4.0-5.el9RLSA-2022:8139
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwavpackno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-44269
Ubuntu:25.10wavpackno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-44269
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSwavpackno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-44269
Ubuntu:26.10wavpackno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-44269

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References