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Fedora 25: 2017-e7f9c23746 Moderate: Flac Buffer Overflow

Update to the latest upstream release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-e7f9c23746 2017-01-06 05:08:55.107556 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : flac Product : Fedora 25 Version : 1.3.2 Release : 1.fc25 URL : https://www.xiph.org/flac/ Summary : An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec Description : 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 to the latest upstream release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1193442 - flac: BSS buffer overflow in flac__encode_file() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193442 [ 2 ] Bug #1193439 - flac: NULL pointer dereference and integer underflow in EncoderSession_init_encoder() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193439 [ 3 ] Bug #1193437 - flac: NULL pointer dereference in FLAC__stream_encoder_process() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193437 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade flac' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Keep abreast of the newest FLAC security enhancements in Fedora 25 to guarantee peak performance and protection.. Flac Security,Fedora 25 Update,Audio Codec Security,Command-Line Tools,Safe Audio Processing. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 06, 2017 Fedora