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Fedora 25: Security Advisory for mingw-flac 1.3.2 Critical Audio Fixes

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to the most recent upstream version 1.3.2 for mingw-flac, incorporating vital security enhancements that boost system stability.
Update to the latest upstream release 1.3.2, also with some security fixes (see bug #1193445 from the native flac package).

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.

Update Information:

Update to the latest upstream release 1.3.2, also with some security fixes (see bug #1193445 from the native flac package).

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security advisory critical software update Fedora audio fix mingw-flac

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1409574 - Update to 1.3.2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409574

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-flac' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: mingw-flac
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.3.2
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://xiph.org/flac/
Summary: Encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

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security advisory critical software update Fedora audio fix mingw-flac

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