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
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-8962
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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Depends On: 1169698 1169699 1169700 1192670 1192671 1192672 1192673
Blocks: 1167237
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-24 09:28 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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 11:20:48 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 2014-11-24 09:28:40 UTC 
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 09:00:53 UTC 
Created mingw-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169699]
Comment 4 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 09:00:55 UTC 
Created xmms-flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169700]
Comment 5 Francisco Alonso 2014-12-02 09:00:58 UTC 
Created flac tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169698]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-07 04:34:06 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 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:41:27 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 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:55:06 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 9 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:55:21 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 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:56:41 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 11 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 19:43:52 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 12 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:45:26 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 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-01 03:34:31 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 16 Fedora Update System 2015-08-15 02:21:42 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 17 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 05:22:39 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 18 Fedora Update System 2015-08-18 05:25:58 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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