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CVE-2007-6279 (GCVE-0-2007-6279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-07 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:02
VLAI
Summary
Multiple double free vulnerabilities in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed (1) Seektable values or (2) Seektable Data Offsets in a .FLAC file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-11-15 00:00
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