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CVE-2014-8962

flac: Buffer read overflow when processing ID3V2 metadata

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 18, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way flac processed certain ID3v2 metadata. An attacker could create a specially crafted FLAC audio file that could cause an application using the flac library to crash when the file was read.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow