CESA-2007:0975: flac security update
Description
An updated flac package to correct a security issue is now available for CentOS Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. The flac package consists of a FLAC encoder and decoder in library form, a program to encode and decode FLAC files, a metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players. A security flaw was found in the way flac processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted FLAC audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with flac libraries to crash or execute arbitrary code when it was opened. (CVE-2007-4619) Users of flac are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch that resolves this issue.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-flac
- centos-upgrade-flac-devel
- centos-upgrade-xmms-flac
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