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title: "CVE-2007-6278\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-6278

Publication date 7 December 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

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

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## Description

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC before 1.2.1 allows user-assisted
remote attackers to force a client to download arbitrary files via the
MIME-Type URL flag (-->) for the FLAC image file in a crafted .FLAC file.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-6278?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| flac | 7.10 gutsy | Fixed 1.1.4-3ubuntu1.1 |
| 7.04 feisty | Not affected |
| 6.10 edgy | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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

checked diff from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 and found the mime parts. These
were included in the fix for CVE-2007-4619 for gutsy. 1.1.2 does not
have the mime code in libFLAC
note that CVE-2007-4619 was very general and came out before the
iDefense CVEs, so there is overlap

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6278)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6278)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-6278)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6278)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6278>