Bug#897015: flac: CVE-2017-6888

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: flac
Version: 1.3.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for flac.

CVE-2017-6888[0]:
| An error in the "read_metadata_vorbiscomment_()" function
| (src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c) in FLAC version 1.3.2 can be exploited
| to cause a memory leak via a specially crafted FLAC file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6888
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6888
[1] https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-7/
[2] https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=4f47b63e9c971e6391590caf00a0f2a5ed612e67

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore