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CVE-2007-4974

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Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flac_buffer_copy function in libsndfile 1.0.17 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a FLAC file with crafted PCM data containing a block with a size that exceeds the previous block size.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00344.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296221

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192834

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3241

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-525-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25758

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:191

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1442

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-04.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/28412

http://secunia.com/advisories/28265

http://secunia.com/advisories/27100

http://secunia.com/advisories/27071

http://secunia.com/advisories/27018

http://secunia.com/advisories/26932

http://secunia.com/advisories/26921

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-09-19

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.064

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