CVE-2020-22219 (GCVE-0-2020-22219)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-22 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-03 18:08
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Summary
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function bitwriter_grow_ in flac before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code via crafted input to the encoder.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-03 18:07 UTC
CWE
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