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CVE-2007-6278

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.

Published: Dec 7, 2007
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
CVE: CVE-2007-6278
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

CWE-264
CWE-20

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
flac / libflac	-	1.2.x

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3423
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483765/100/200/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018974

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