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Fedora 22: 2015-13145 Moderate: flac Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Revise flac to address vulnerabilities identified within the xmms-flac plugin for Fedora 22, thereby improving overall security.
Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).

Summary

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC

is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of

the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form,

flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac,

a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for

various music players.

This package contains the command-line tools and documentation.

Update Information:

Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora security fix audio codec xmms-flac

Change Log

* Mon Aug 10 2015 Tom Callaway - 1.3.1-5 - add xmms-flac plugin as a conditionalized subpackage * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.3.1-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild * Sat May 2 2015 Kalev Lember - 1.3.1-3 - Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change * Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas - 1.3.1-2 - Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1167236 - CVE-2014-8962 flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2 metadata https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167236 [ 2 ] Bug #1167741 - CVE-2014-9028 flac: Heap buffer write overflow in read_residual_partitioned_rice_ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167741

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update flac' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: flac
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.3.1
Release: 5.fc22
URL: https://www.xiph.org/flac/
Summary: An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora security fix audio codec xmms-flac

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