USN-5733-1

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USN-5733-1

Summary: flac vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing memory management operations, which could result in a memory leak. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FLAC to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-6888) It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing bounds checking operations when decoding data. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or to cause FLAC to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-0499) It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing bounds checking operations when encoding data. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or to cause FLAC to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2021-0561)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5733-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6888, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-0499, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-0561