Gentoo: 200711-15 Advisory: Risks of FLAC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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November 12, 2007
Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in FLAC possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-15
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: FLAC: Buffer overflow
Date: November 12, 2007
Bugs: #195700
ID: 200711-15
Synopsis
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Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in FLAC possibly
allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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The Xiph.org Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) library is the reference
implementation of the FLAC audio file format. It contains encoders and
decoders in library and executable form.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/flac < 1.2.1-r1 >= 1.2.1-r1
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