Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FLAC, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
FLAC Media File Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27210
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27210/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
FLAC 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16072/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FLAC, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflow errors in
various components when processing FLAC media files and can be
exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via specially-crafted
FLAC media files.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.2.0. Prior versions and
other applications using the vulnerable library may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by Sean de Regge, reported via iDefense Labs.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FLAC:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/changelog.html
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=608
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