Ubuntu Security Notice 5733-1 - It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing memory management operations, which could result in a memory leak. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FLAC to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing bounds checking operations when decoding data. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or to cause FLAC to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
5aa1c296ac510c2d91e6b194e1a3160b6f80fdad0f84b27288784c1f63e3c634Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in FLAC, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "read_metadata_vorbiscomment_()" function (stream_decoder.c), which can be exploited to cause a memory leak via a specially crafted FLAC file. The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.3.2. Other versions may also be affected.
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