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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5048-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5048-01 - FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, and a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: flac security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5048-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5048
Issue date: 2023-09-11
CVE Names: CVE-2020-22219
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  1. Summary:

An update for flac is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. Description:

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis,
but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference
encoders and decoders in library form, a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, and a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files.

Security Fix(es):

  • flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by
    supplying crafted input to the encoder (CVE-2020-22219)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

  1. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2235489 - CVE-2020-22219 flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by supplying crafted input to the encoder

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):

Source:
flac-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-libs-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-libs-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-libs-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-libs-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-libs-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9):

aarch64:
flac-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-devel-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
flac-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-devel-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
flac-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-devel-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
flac-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-debugsource-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-devel-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-devel-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.i686.rpm
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.3-10.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-22219
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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