CVE-2007-6277
Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large (1) Metadata Block Size, (2) VORBIS Comment
02 Description
Multiple buffer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large (1) Metadata Block Size, (2) VORBIS Comment
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.74% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-12-07 11:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 16:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-12-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9185d1edebbbe0a1f55c2d76b6b74d760dd552d73b7430726251b1f5d2dd5fbd
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-1469http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1469
- research.eeye.comAD20071115http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
- www.securitytracker.com1018974http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974
- securityreason.com3423http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
- secunia.com28548http://secunia.com/advisories/28548
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#544656http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10435https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10435
- www.securityfocus.com20071115 EEYE: Multiple Vulnerabilities In .FLAC File Format and Various Media Applicationshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- flac Fixed in 1.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- flac Fixed in 1.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- flac Fixed in 1.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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