ALAS-2015-505

Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-505
Advisory Released Date: 2015-04-15
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-04-15

Severity: Important

References: CVE-2014-8962 CVE-2014-9028 RHSA-2015-0767
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2014-9028)

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. (CVE-2014-8962)

Affected Packages:

flac

Issue Correction:
Run yum update flac to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:
    flac-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.i686
    flac-devel-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.i686
    flac-debuginfo-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.i686

src:
    flac-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    flac-devel-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.x86_64
    flac-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.x86_64
    flac-debuginfo-1.2.1-7.7.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028

Mitre: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028