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, (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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1469
Various Sources third-party-advisory
x_refsource_eeye
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
Patch vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28548
Patch, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10435
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
Scores
EPSS
0.0674
EPSS Percentile
93.2%
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
flac/libflac
< 1.2
Published
Dec 07, 2007
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026