Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-13353 Critical: Flac Buffer Overflow Threat
fedora
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Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).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Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).
Topics Covered
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 .
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Name: flac
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.3.1
Release: 5.fc23
Summary: An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec
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