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A flac security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: flac-1.3.4-3.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-bf8423a373
2023-09-16 01:40:12.903709
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Name : flac
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 1.3.4
Release : 3.fc37
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-2020-22219
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 31 2023 Miroslav Lichvar [mlichvar@redhat.com] 1.3.4-3
- don't free memory that is still used after realloc() error (CVE-2020-22219)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2235580 - CVE-2020-22219 flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by supplying crafted input to the encoder [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235580
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-bf8423a373' 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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