RHSA-2023:5042HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: flac security update

Published
September 11, 2023
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-22219 →

📋 Description

CVE-2020-22219 — flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by supplying crafted input to the encoder

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debugsource-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debugsource-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-debugsource-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • flac-libs-debuginfo-0:1.3.2-9.el8_1.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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