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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-6432bb65ae Critical: Libeconf Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade libeconf to version 0.5.2 in Fedora 38 to resolve severe stack-based security vulnerabilities.
Rebase to 0.5.2 to fix CVE-2023-22652 and CVE-2023-30079

Summary

libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage

key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from

different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.

Update Information:

Rebase to 0.5.2 to fix CVE-2023-22652 and CVE-2023-30079

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora libeconf

Change Log

* Mon Aug 28 2023 Iker Pedrosa - 0.5.2-1 - Update to 0.5.2 (RH#1980774) - Fix CVE-2023-22652 (RH#2212464) - Fix CVE-2023-30079 (RH#2235236) * Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.4.0-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1980774 - libeconf-0.5.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980774 [ 2 ] Bug #2212464 - CVE-2023-22652 libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212464 [ 3 ] Bug #2235236 - CVE-2023-30079 libeconf: Stack overflow in function read_file at atlibeconf/lib/getfilecontents.c [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235236

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-6432bb65ae' 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: libeconf
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 0.5.2
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf
Summary: Enhanced config file parser library

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security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora libeconf

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