A vulnerability has been identified in Libsndfile, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "flac_buffer_copy()" [flac.c] function when processing a FLAC file with specially crafted PCM Data, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected system by tricking a user into opening a malicious file using an application linked against a vulnerable library.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Robert Buchholz.
ChangeLog
2007-09-24 : Initial release
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