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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-eec9ce5935 Critical: Libcue RCE Fix

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 38 tackles potential code execution vulnerabilities in libcue. Discover more about the resolution today!
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 Fedora code execution arbitrary execution RCE 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

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-eec9ce5935' 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 38
Version: 2.2.1
Release: 13.fc38
URL: https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue
Summary: Cue sheet parser library

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora code execution arbitrary execution RCE libcue

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