CVE-2007-6277 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Flac

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
18.1%
top 4.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Flac Project FlacDebian FlacFlac Libflac
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
Latest updateMay 1

Description

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…

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDflac/libflac1.2
▶debiandebian/flac< flac 1.2.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianflac_project/flac< 1.2.1-1+3

Patches

Patch: www.kb.cert.org ↗Patch: www.securitytracker.com ↗Patch: www.kb.cert.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5955-gqmh-73gj: Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1↗2022-05-01
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OSV
CVE-2007-6277: Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1↗2007-12-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libflac: Multiple security issues fixed in 1.2.1↗2007-11-15
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Debian
CVE-2007-6277: flac - Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2...↗2007
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-6277 libflac: Multiple security issues fixed in 1.2.1↗2007-12-07
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