flac vulnerabilities

27 November 2014

flac vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

FLAC could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• flac - Free Lossless Audio Codec

Details

Michele Spagnuolo discovered that FLAC incorrectly handled certain malformed audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause FLAC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10

libflac++6 - 1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.10.1

libflac8 - 1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libflac++6 - 1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1

libflac8 - 1.3.0-2ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libflac++6 - 1.2.1-6ubuntu0.1

libflac8 - 1.2.1-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

libflac++6 - 1.2.1-2ubuntu0.1

libflac8 - 1.2.1-2ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-8962
• CVE-2014-9028