[flac-dev] Two new CVEs against FLAC

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Tue Dec 9 23:35:30 PST 2014


Janne Hyvärinen wrote:

> This patch breaks seeking in some perfectly valid files. So far I have 
> received one sample full CD image from a foobar2000 user where a track 
> is rendered inaccessible because of this. Re-encoding the file with FLAC 
> 1.2.1 - 1.3.1 with identical settings doesn't remove the seeking problem.
> Either this patch needs to go or it needs to be altered to not prevent 
> seek sync.

I think I have an alternative fix for the CVE which should not break
seeking. I'm working on getting an copy of the file with which to test.

Cheers,
Erik
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