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Fedora 28 FEDORA-2018-6a378e32c3 Moderate FLAC Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2018
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Fedora 28 mp3 security patch addresses buffer overflow in metadata parsing, boosting overall system resilience and efficiency.
Security fix for CVE-2017-6888.

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.

Security fix for CVE-2017-6888.

* Wed May 2 2018 Miroslav Lichvar 1.3.2-7

- fix memory leak in parsing of vorbis comments (CVE-2017-6888)

- add gcc to build requirements

[ 1 ] Bug #1573058 - CVE-2017-6888 flac: Memory leak in src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c:read_metadata_vorbiscomment_()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573058

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-6a378e32c3' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.3.2
Release: 7.fc28
Summary: An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

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