CVE-2007-4619

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1, as used in Winamp before 5.5 and other products, allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed FLAC file that triggers improper memory allocation, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

FLAC Libflac: through 1.2
Nullsoft Winamp: through 5.35

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331991
http://flac.sourceforge.net/changelog.html#flac_1_2_1
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=608
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27210
http://secunia.com/advisories/27223
http://secunia.com/advisories/27355
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
http://secunia.com/advisories/27507
http://secunia.com/advisories/27601
http://secunia.com/advisories/27625
http://secunia.com/advisories/27628

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