CVE-2007-6277

published 2007-12-07

CVE-2007-6277: Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large (1)…

Priority P3 40 critical 9.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C C I C A C

Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large (1) Metadata Block Size, (2) VORBIS Comment String Size, (3) Picture Metadata MIME-TYPE Size, (4) Picture Description Size, (5) Picture Data Length, (6) Padding Length, and (7) PICTURE Metadata width and height values in a .FLAC file, which result in a heap-based overflow; and large (8) VORBIS Comment String Size Length, (9) Picture MIME-Type, (10) Picture MIME-Type URL, and (11) Picture Description Length values in a .FLAC file, which result in a stack-based overflow. NOTE: some of these issues may overlap CVE-2007-4619.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	flac	< flac 1.2.1-1 (bookworm)	flac 1.2.1-1 (bookworm)
flac	libflac	<= 1.2	—
flac_project	flac	>= 0 < 1.2.1-1	1.2.1-1
flac_project	flac	>= 0 < 1.2.1-1	1.2.1-1
flac_project	flac	>= 0 < 1.2.1-1	1.2.1-1
flac_project	flac	>= 0 < 1.2.1-1	1.2.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 9.3 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 9.3 CRITICAL

vendor_debian 9.3 CRITICAL

vendor_redhat 9.3 CRITICAL

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