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CVE-2007-6278

Public Date:: 2007-11-15

Bugzilla:: 415591: CVE-2007-6278 FLAC doesn't enforce a MIME type for image referenced by URL

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to force a client to download arbitrary files via the MIME-Type URL flag (-->) for the FLAC image file in a crafted .FLAC file.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6278 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Red Hat does not consider this a security issue. The downloading of arbitrary files will be harmless unless there is a vulnerability in the application handling these other filetypes.

Last Modified 2018-05-02T09:51:04+00:00

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