CVE-2007-6277

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-11-15
Bugzilla:
415581: CVE-2007-6277 libflac: Multiple security issues fixed in 1.2.1

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large (1) Metadata Block Size, (2) VORBIS Comment String Size, (3) Picture Metadata MIME-TYPE Size, (4) Picture Description Size, (5) Picture Data Length, (6) Padding Length, and (7) PICTURE Metadata width and height values in a .FLAC file, which result in a heap-based overflow; and large (8) VORBIS Comment String Size Length, (9) Picture MIME-Type, (10) Picture MIME-Type URL, and (11) Picture Description Length values in a .FLAC file, which result in a stack-based overflow. NOTE: some of these issues may overlap CVE-2007-4619.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6277 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (flac) RHSA-2007:0975 2007-10-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (flac) RHSA-2007:0975 2007-10-22

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