Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting flac package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (59th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-FLAC-287501
- published 25 Apr 2018
- disclosed 25 Apr 2018
Introduced: 25 Apr 2018
CVE-2017-6888 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
flac
.
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:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
An error in the "read_metadata_vorbiscomment_()" function (src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c) in FLAC version 1.3.2 can be exploited to cause a memory leak via a specially crafted FLAC file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6888
- https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=4f47b63e9c971e6391590caf00a0f2a5ed612e67
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6888
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33W6XZAAEJYRGU3XYHRO7XSYEA7YACUB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNZYTAU5UWBVXVJ4VHDWPR66ZVDLQZRE/
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/82639/
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-7/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00001.html
- https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f47b63e9c971e6391590caf00a0f2a5ed612e67
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33W6XZAAEJYRGU3XYHRO7XSYEA7YACUB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNZYTAU5UWBVXVJ4VHDWPR66ZVDLQZRE/