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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-74667e499e Critical: Heap Buffer Underread in Indent

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 38 update tackles a significant heap underread vulnerability linked to C code processing, thereby boosting overall system security.
This release fixes a heap buffer underread in indent tool when processing a code in which an opening parenthesis follows a comment with a text.

Summary

Indent is a GNU program for beautifying C code, so that it is easier to

read. Indent can also convert from one C writing style to a different

one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle incorrect

C syntax.

Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and

you want a program to format your code.

Update Information:

This release fixes a heap buffer underread in indent tool when processing a code in which an opening parenthesis follows a comment with a text.

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security advisory buffer overflow critical software update Fedora heap underread indent tool

Change Log

* Wed Jan 24 2024 Petr Pisar - 2.2.13-5 - Fix a heap buffer underread in set_buf_break() (bug #2259883)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2260399 - CVE-2024-0911 indent: heap-based buffer overflow in set_buf_break() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260399

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-74667e499e' 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: indent
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.2.13
Release: 5.fc38
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Summary: A GNU program for formatting C code

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update Fedora heap underread indent tool

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