CVE-2007-6279

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-11-15
Bugzilla:
415601: CVE-2007-6279 Double-frees via crafted FLAC file

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple double free vulnerabilities in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed (1) Seektable values or (2) Seektable Data Offsets in a .FLAC file.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6279 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This flaw is not exploitable to run arbitrary code and can only cause an application crash. Red Hat does not consider a crash of the flac application or applications that use flac libraries such as media players to be a security issue.

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