Executive Summary

Summary
Title flac123: Buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-200709-06 First vendor Publication 2007-09-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-09-14
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

flac123 is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

flac123 is a command-line application for playing FLAC audio files.

Description

A possible buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the local__vcentry_parse_value() function in vorbiscomment.c.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted audio file, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All flac123 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/flac123-0.0.11"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-3507 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3507

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-06.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-06.xml

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for flac123 FEDORA-2007-1045
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_1045_flac123_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200709-06 (flac123)
File : nvt/glsa_200709_06.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: flac123
File : nvt/freebsd_flac123.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40524 flac123 vorbiscomment.c local__vcentry_parse_value Function Comment Parsing O...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-1045.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-09-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200709-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-07-01 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_32d38cbb263211dc94da0016179b2dd5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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