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Fedora 21: 2015-13160 Moderate: Flac Xmms Plugin Buffer Overflow

Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-13160 2015-08-10 22:54:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : flac Product : Fedora 21 Version : 1.3.1 Release : 5.fc21 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Information: Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Aug 10 2015 Tom Callaway - 1.3.1-5 - add xmms-flac plugin as a conditionalized subpackage * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.3.1-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild * Sat May 2 2015 Kalev Lember - 1.3.1-3 - Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change * Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas - 1.3.1-2 - Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code * Thu Nov 27 2014 Miroslav Lichvar 1.3.1-1 - update to 1.3.1 (CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1167236 - CVE-2014-8962 flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2metadata https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167236 [ 2 ] Bug #1167741 - CVE-2014-9028 flac: Heap buffer write overflow in read_residual_partitioned_rice_ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update flac' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . Update to fix security issues in flac's xmms plugin for Fedora 21 enhances stability and security features.. flac security,Fedora 21 update,audio codec vulnerability. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 18, 2015 Fedora