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Fedora: 2022-4a3ef86baa Critical: Gerbv Out-Of-Bounds and Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey July 8, 2022
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Fedora Release: gerbv 2.9.2 fixes significant problems such as out-of-bounds and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
upstream release 2.9.2

Summary

Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files

are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers

as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported

by gerbv is RS-274X.

gerbv also supports drill files. The format supported are known

under names as NC-drill or Excellon. The format is a bit undefined

and different EDA-vendors implement it different.

gerbv is listed among Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) packages.

upstream release 2.9.2

* Thu Jun 30 2022 Alain Vigne - 2.9.2-1

- new upstream release

[ 1 ] Bug #2041799 - CVE-2021-40391 gerbv: out-of-bounds write in the drill format T-code tool number functionality [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041799

[ 2 ] Bug #2051387 - CVE-2021-40401 gerbv: A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the RS-274X aperture definition tokenization functionality of Gerbv [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051387

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-4a3ef86baa' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 2.9.2
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: Gerber file viewer from the gEDA toolkit

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