Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in WavPack 5.1.0 and earlier for WAV input. Out-of-bounds writes can occur because ParseRiffHeaderConfig in riff.c does not validate the sizes of unknown chunks before attempting memory allocation, related to a lack of integer-overflow protection within a bytes_to_copy calculation and subsequent malloc call, leading to insufficient memory allocation.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10538
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in WavPack 5.1.0 and earlier for WAV input. Out-of-bounds writes can occur because ParseRiffHeaderConfig in riff.c does not validate the sizes of unknown chunks before attempting memory allocation, related to a lack of integer-overflow protection within a bytes_to_copy calculation and subsequent malloc call, leading to insufficient memory allocation.
osv:CVE-2018-10538
Complete source record
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