Bug 1167236 – CVE-2014-8962 flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2 metadata

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Bug 1167236 - (CVE-2014-8962) CVE-2014-8962 flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2 metadata

Summary:	CVE-2014-8962 flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2 metadata

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-8962

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1169698 1169699 1169700 1192670 1192671 1192672 1192673
Blocks:	1167237
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Reported:	2014-11-24 04:28 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2015-11-25 05:27 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	flac 1.3.1pre1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way flac processed certain ID3v2 metadata. An attacker could create a specially crafted FLAC audio file that could cause an application using the flac library to crash when the file was read.
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Last Closed:	2015-04-01 07:20:48 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0767	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: flac security update	2015-04-01 03:33:58 EDT

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-24 04:28:40 EST

Unspecified vulnerability was fixed in flac upstream repository [1]

There're currently no publicly availble details about this issue:
The commit above will be included in flac 1.3.1, which will be out early next week [2].

[1]: https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b3033a2b355068c11fe637e14ac742d273f076e
[2]: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2014-November/005185.html

Comment 3 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 04:00:53 EST

Created mingw-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169699]

Comment 4 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 04:00:55 EST

Created xmms-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169700]

Comment 5 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 04:00:58 EST

Created flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169698]

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-06 23:34:06 EST

flac-1.3.1-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 04:41:27 EST

flac-1.3.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 04:55:06 EST

mingw-flac-1.3.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 04:55:21 EST

mingw-flac-1.3.1-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 04:56:41 EST

mingw-flac-1.3.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 14:43:52 EST

mingw-flac-1.3.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 03:45:26 EST

flac-1.3.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-31 23:34:31 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0767 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0767.html

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2015-08-14 22:21:42 EDT

flac-1.3.1-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 01:22:39 EDT

flac-1.3.1-5.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 01:25:58 EDT

flac-1.3.1-5.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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