Double-frees via crafted FLAC file
Published Dec 7, 2007
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.98%
Description
Multiple double free vulnerabilities in Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed (1) Seektable values or (2) Seektable Data Offsets in a .FLAC file.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This flaw is not exploitable to run arbitrary code and can only cause an application crash. Red Hat does not consider a crash of the flac application or applications that use flac libraries such as media players to be a security issue.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 4, 2026.
Score over time
2022-2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (12 key points)
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| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2026 | 3.98% (0.03979) | 90.18th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.98% (0.03979) | 89.11th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.96% (0.02960) | 85.26th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 12.53% (0.12527) | 89.87th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.31% (0.03314) | 86.41th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 25, 2024 | 10.90% (0.10896) | 95.09th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 9.73% (0.09728) | 95.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 10, 2024 | 9.79% (0.09790) | 94.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 8.39% (0.08387) | 93.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 6.52% (0.06523) | 91.37th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 6.52% (0.06523) | 90.53th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 6.52% (0.06523) | 78.43th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (9)
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_EEYE
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKPatch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6279 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415601 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6279
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6279
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_EEYE | |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON | |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKPatch | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6279 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415601 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6279 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6279 |
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