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Fedora 37: 2023-1fe05ac8d9 Critical: libcue Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This revision for Fedora introduces a remedy for a critical security vulnerability in libcue, which has the potential to result in unauthorized code execution.
This update backports the fix for a serious security issue that could cause arbitrary code execution, tracked as CVE-2023-43641

Summary

Libcue is intended for parsing a so-called cue sheet from a char string or

a file pointer. For handling of the parsed data a convenient API is available.

Update Information:

This update backports the fix for a serious security issue that could cause arbitrary code execution, tracked as CVE-2023-43641. See [this write-up by Kevin Backhouse](- gnome-cve-2023-43641/) for details. Thanks to Kevin for discovering the issue and writing the fix.

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security advisory update critical Fedora code execution arbitrary code execution libcue

Change Log

* Tue Oct 10 2023 Adam Williamson - 2.2.1-13 - Fix CVE-2023-43641 (Kevin Backhouse) * Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.2.1-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.2.1-11 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2242943 - 1-Click RCE Exploit in Libcue (CVE-2023-43641) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242943 [ 2 ] Bug #2243167 - CVE-2023-43641 libcue: a out-of-bounds array access leads to RCE [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243167

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-1fe05ac8d9' 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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Name: libcue
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 2.2.1
Release: 13.fc37
URL: https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue
Summary: Cue sheet parser library

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security advisory update critical Fedora code execution arbitrary code execution libcue

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