Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting flac package, versions <1.3.2-2+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.34% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-FLAC-287502
  • published25 Apr 2018
  • disclosed25 Apr 2018

Introduced: 25 Apr 2018

CVE-2017-6888  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 flac to version 1.3.2-2+deb9u1 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:9 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1