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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-b0695fcdf7 Moderate: liblas DoS Attacks

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Confidential alert issued for Fedora 31, highlighting severe vulnerabilities in liblas. This includes risks of DOS exploits and issues related to memory management.
This update fixes the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-20536, CVE-2018-20537, CVE-2018-20539, CVE-2018-20540

Summary

libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing the very common LAS LiDAR

format. The ASPRS LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store

data from LiDAR sensors and by LiDAR processing software for data

interchange and archival.

This update fixes the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-20536,

CVE-2018-20537, CVE-2018-20539, CVE-2018-20540

* Tue Apr 14 2020 Sandro Mani - 1.8.1-5

- Add patches for CVE-2018-20539, CVE-2018-20537, CVE-2018-20536, CVE-2018-20540

* Tue Mar 3 2020 Sandro Mani - 1.8.1-4

- Rebuild (gdal)

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.1-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1652609 - There is a Segmentation fault triggered by illegal address access at liblas::SpatialReference::GetGTIF()(src/spatialreference.cpp:515) in libLAS while will cause dos attack.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652609

[ 2 ] Bug #1652610 - There is a heap-buffer-overflow at liblas::SpatialReference::GetGTIF()(src/spatialreference.cpp:518) in libLAS while will cause dos attack.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652610

[ 3 ] Bug #1652611 - There is an illegal address access at liblas::SpatialReference::GetGTIF()(src/spatialreference.cpp:532) in libLAS while will cause dos attack.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652611

[ 4 ] Bug #1652612 - There is memory leak at liblas::Open(liblas/liblas.hpp:127) in libLAS.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652612

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b0695fcdf7' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 31
Version: 1.8.1
Release: 5.fc31
URL: Summary : Library for reading and writing the very common LAS LiDAR format

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