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CVE-2017-6888

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

An error in the "read_metadata_vorbiscomment_()" function (src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c) in FLAC version 1.3.2 can be exploited to cause a memory leak via a specially crafted FLAC file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
• Flac Project Flac: through 1.3.2

References

• https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f47b63e9c971e6391590caf00a0f2a5ed612e67
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00001.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33W6XZAAEJYRGU3XYHRO7XSYEA7YACUB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNZYTAU5UWBVXVJ4VHDWPR66ZVDLQZRE/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/82639/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-7/
• https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4f47b63e9c971e6391590caf00a0f2a5ed612e67
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00001.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33W6XZAAEJYRGU3XYHRO7XSYEA7YACUB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNZYTAU5UWBVXVJ4VHDWPR66ZVDLQZRE/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/82639/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-7/

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