Bug 1167741 (CVE-2014-9028) - CVE-2014-9028 flac: Heap buffer write overflow in read_residual_partitioned_rice_
Summary: CVE-2014-9028 flac: Heap buffer write overflow in read_residual_partitioned_r...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-9028
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1169698 1169699 1169700 1192670 1192671 1192672 1192673
Blocks: 1167237
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-25 10:42 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:24 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: flac 1.3.1pre1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way flac decoded FLAC audio files. An attacker could create a specially crafted FLAC audio file that could cause an application using the flac library to crash or execute arbitrary code when the file was read.
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Last Closed: 2015-04-01 11:20:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0767 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: flac security update 2015-04-01 07:33:58 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-25 10:42:00 UTC 
It was reported [1] that there's a vulnerability in flac which caused the stream decoder to write to un-allocated heap space resulting in a segfault.

Upstrem commit for this issue is at [2].

[1]: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2014-November/005226.html
[2]: https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcf0ba06ae12ccd7c67cee3c8d948df15f946b85
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2014-11-26 13:30:27 UTC 
The upstream commit at [2] doesn't seem to fix this problem completely, please see other mails in the thread [1].
Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2014-11-27 09:18:45 UTC 
The second part of the fix is in this commit:
https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=5a365996d739bdf4711af51d9c2c71c8a5e14660

This is in the new flac-1.3.1 release.
Comment 4 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 09:00:22 UTC 
Created mingw-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169699]
Comment 5 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 09:00:24 UTC 
Created xmms-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169700]
Comment 6 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 09:00:26 UTC 
Created flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169698]
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-07 04:34:10 UTC 
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 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:41:29 UTC 
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 9 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:55:08 UTC 
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 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:55:23 UTC 
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 11 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:56:43 UTC 
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 12 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 19:43:55 UTC 
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 13 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:45:29 UTC 
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 16 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-01 03:34:32 UTC 
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 17 Fedora Update System 2015-08-15 02:21:46 UTC 
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 18 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 05:22:43 UTC 
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 19 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 05:26:01 UTC 
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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