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title: "CVE-2007-4974\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-4974

Publication date 19 September 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flac\_buffer\_copy function in libsndfile
1.0.17 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
via a FLAC file with crafted PCM data containing a block with a size that
exceeds the previous block size.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-4974?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| libsndfile | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 1.0.16-1ubuntu0.7.04.1 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 1.0.16-1ubuntu0.6.10.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 1.0.12-3ubuntu0.1 |

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## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

fix in MDKSA-2007:191

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4974)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4974)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-4974)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4974)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-525-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-525-1)
+ libsndfile vulnerability
+ 4 October 2007

### Other references

* <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192834>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4974>