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A flac security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: flac-1.3.3-4.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-df42ebeac2
2021-01-10 01:26:36.112840
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Name : flac
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 1.3.3
Release : 4.fc33
URL :   https://www.xiph.org/flac/
Summary : An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec
Description :
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC
is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of
the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form,
flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac,
a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for
various music players.

This package contains the command-line tools and documentation.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-0499
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 7 2021 Miroslav Lichvar 1.3.3-4
- fix out-of-bounds read in decoder (CVE-2020-0499)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1909806 - CVE-2020-0499 flac: out-of-bounds read can lead to denial of service
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909806
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-df42ebeac2' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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