Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7741",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-7741",
    "summary": "In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the \"flac_buffer_copy()\" function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a segmentation violation (with write memory access) via a specially crafted FLAC file during a resample attempt, a similar issue to CVE-2017-7585.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:27:22.825241115Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-04",
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/11/libsndfile-invalid-memory-read-and-invalid-memory-write-in/",
        "https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/60b234301adf258786d8b90be5c1d437fc8799e0"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387706,
  "published_at": "2017-04-12T18:59:00.157+00:00"
}