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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-06
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: flac123: Buffer overflow
Date: September 14, 2007
Bugs: #186220
ID: 200709-06
Synopsis
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flac123 is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could
allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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flac123 is a command-line application for playing FLAC audio files.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-sound/flac123 < 0.0.11 >= 0.0.11
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A possible buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the
local__vcentry_parse_value() function in vorbiscomment.c.
Impact
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An attacker could entice a user to pl...
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