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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58965
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0975
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2007:0975.

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:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0975.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-4619
BugTraq ID: 26042
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26042
Debian Security Information: DSA-1469 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1469
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00035.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-15.xml
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=608
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:214
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10571
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0975.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018815
http://secunia.com/advisories/27210
http://secunia.com/advisories/27223
http://secunia.com/advisories/27355
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
http://secunia.com/advisories/27507
http://secunia.com/advisories/27601
http://secunia.com/advisories/27625
http://secunia.com/advisories/27628
http://secunia.com/advisories/27780
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878
http://secunia.com/advisories/28548
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:022 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-540-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3483
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3484
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
XForce ISS Database: flac-media-files-bo(37187)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37187
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