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CVE-2014-9028

flac: Heap buffer write overflow in read_residual_partitioned_rice_

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 25, 2014

Updated · November 5, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way flac decoded FLAC audio files. An attacker could create a specially crafted FLAC audio file that could cause an application using the flac library to crash or execute arbitrary code 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 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow