Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-6279 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Flac Libflac

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
flac
CWE-399
critical

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
Flac
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Statements

contributorMark J Cox
lastmodified2007-12-11
organizationRed Hat
statementThis 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.