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CVE-2007-6278

Publication date 7 December 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to force a client to download arbitrary files via the MIME-Type URL flag (-->) for the FLAC image file in a crafted .FLAC file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
flac 7.10 gutsy
Fixed 1.1.4-3ubuntu1.1
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

checked diff from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 and found the mime parts. These were included in the fix for CVE-2007-4619 for gutsy. 1.1.2 does not have the mime code in libFLAC note that CVE-2007-4619 was very general and came out before the iDefense CVEs, so there is overlap