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RHSA-2023:5042: Red Hat Security Advisory: flac security update
An update for flac is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2020-22219: A flaw was found in the libeconf library. This issue occurs due to a buffer overflow vulnerability in the bitwriter_grow_ function in FLAC that allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code via crafted input to the encoder.
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Issued:
2023-09-11
Updated:
2023-09-11
RHSA-2023:5042 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: flac security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for flac is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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.
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.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2235489 - CVE-2020-22219 flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by supplying crafted input to the encoder
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1
SRPM
flac-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: 632b8702ac672e885bfe82c6ebf2efd8deb166620ce486c98d6d3cf069ba8326
ppc64le
flac-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 10a00eb3888be29d1894dcfffc5f7df9c0c9c039a22aa56ac2c871ddd575eb74
flac-debugsource-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 386ebbfa52e6ed17dd26106ef800439e3ff63dee9debeb645c1cdeeabab9c1cd
flac-libs-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 5df9346ce6329febefd3893e8d4c0317412b73242d0d53f61701b4ed43a07614
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: a1735f0842ec93ae18fe12cc7e80f9e2c7cfba2f857c39a934adcd473b6b56d6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1
SRPM
flac-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.src.rpm
SHA-256: 632b8702ac672e885bfe82c6ebf2efd8deb166620ce486c98d6d3cf069ba8326
x86_64
flac-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
SHA-256: f8c53497703eaad6903d8644d80a8ba1b2d66252d5fed8a96dfc7991dbfd1ed3
flac-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 2c8d06df590cc67e99025f316c86147c4397b4fe977883eb7942b700d42d5b55
flac-debugsource-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 4fea0c2c346ca304344bcf27980dd4054793bda606f20dabbfaf75ed8cc9636d
flac-debugsource-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: aeead4a9fa97ce175b6ab9a17f33628c6515736671d00bf41ad8ad60bdda0711
flac-libs-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 97e0cc11763103e9d9171920182aafd5c4bb9fbf97ffffc5552382f70ce8b9a8
flac-libs-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: c531e53d4b4ce61c1e26b8e5ff193d9f0e020034ded1bf1e5e66476220fb48fe
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
SHA-256: fbdd230ebf795de7d2a6fec8c7e984ef23a565efa9ae785a2067b5148530342b
flac-libs-debuginfo-1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b051d82ad5cd82ed65a245cbcc47a6844080d4d565bee426f1bc8cfa74b56257
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