CVE-2007-6278

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to force a client to download arbitrary files via the MIME-Type URL flag (-->) for the FLAC image file in a crafted .FLAC file.

Affected products

FLAC Libflac: through 1.2

References

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974

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