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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-22219): FLAC vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-22219): FLAC vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
09/18/2023
Added
09/18/2023
Modified
09/22/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-flac
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libflac8

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