Bug 415601 (CVE-2007-6279) - CVE-2007-6279 Double-frees via crafted FLAC file
Summary: CVE-2007-6279 Double-frees via crafted FLAC file
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2007-6279
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-07 13:22 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-12-10 15:59:13 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-12-07 13:22:10 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-6279 to the following vulnerability:

Multiple double-free vulnerabilities in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed (1) Seektable values or (2) Seektable Data Offsets in a .FLAC file.

References:

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-12-10 15:59:13 UTC 
This flaw is not exploitable and can only cause an application to crash. Red Hat
does not consider unexploitable crash of flac application and applications that
use flac libraries such as media players to be a security issue.
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