Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-6279 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Flac Libflac
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2007-12-11 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | 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. |
References
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974