USN-2426-1

Michele Spagnuolo discovered that FLAC incorrectly handled certain malformed audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause FLAC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / flac

Package

Name: flac
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/flac@1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0-1

1.3.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "flac",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libflac++-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libflac++6",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libflac-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libflac8",
            "binary_version": "1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-8962"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-9028"
        }
    ]
}