USN-540-1: flac vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• flac -

Details

Sean de Regge discovered that flac did not properly perform bounds
checking in many situations. An attacker could send a specially crafted
FLAC audio file and execute arbitrary code as the user or cause a denial
of service in flac or applications that link against flac.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• libflac8 - 1.1.4-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• libflac7 - 1.1.2-5ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• libflac7 - 1.1.2-5ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libflac7 - 1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-4619