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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-13353
2015-08-12 19:49:47
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Name        : flac
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 1.3.1
Release     : 5.fc23
URL         : https://www.xiph.org/flac/
Summary     : An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 23: flac Security Update

August 18, 2015
Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).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).

Change Log

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 .

Severity
Name : flac
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 1.3.1
Release : 5.fc23
URL : https://www.xiph.org/flac/
Summary : An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

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