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Debian: DSA-3082-1 Moderate: Flac Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2014
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Urgent patch released for the Ubuntu flac application tackling security vulnerabilities identified in manipulated audio files.
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 spec...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.1-6+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your flac packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: flac
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8962 CVE-2014-9028

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