Buffer Overflow Affecting flac package, versions <1.3.2-3+deb10u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-FLAC-5858508
  • published 25 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 22 Aug 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 flac to version 1.3.2-3+deb10u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flac package and not the flac package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function bitwriter_grow_ in flac before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code via crafted input to the encoder.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

7.8 high