Debian Security Advisory
DLA-99-1 flac -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 05 Dec 2014
- Affected Packages:
- flac
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028.
- More information:
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Michele Spagnuolo, of Google Security Team, and Miroslav Lichvar, of Red Hat, discovered two issues in flac, a library handling Free Lossless Audio Codec media: by providing a specially crafted FLAC file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.
- CVE-2014-8962
Heap-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.
- CVE-2014-9028
Stack-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in flac version 1.2.1-2+deb6u1 - CVE-2014-8962