National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6279
Original release date:12/07/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (12/11/2007)
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This flaw is not exploitable to run arbitrary code and can only cause an application crash. Red Hat does not consider a crash of the flac application or applications that use flac libraries such as media players to be a security issue.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#544656
Name: VU#544656
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018974
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20071115 EEYE: Multiple Vulnerabilities In .FLAC File Format and Various Media Applications
External Source: EEYE
Name: AD20071115
External Source: SREASON
Name: 3423