Memory Leak Affecting xiph/flac package, versions [,1.3.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XIPHFLAC-2366482
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Apr 2018

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xiph/flac.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. 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