Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in WavPackPackInit Function

CVE-2018-19840 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (resource exhaustion caused by an infinite loop) via a crafted wav audio file because WavpackSetConfiguration64 mishandles a sample rate of zero.

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