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Fedora 39: 2024-b69a4d75a1 Critical Memory Leak Fix in Freeglut

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39 rolled out a patch for freeglut targeting significant memory leaks associated with CVE-2024-24258 and CVE-2024-24259.
Patch for CVE-2024-24258 and CVE-2024-24259

Summary

freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit

(GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally

written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition

OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical

applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable.

freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL

contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and

joystick functions.

Update Information:

Patch for CVE-2024-24258 and CVE-2024-24259

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora memory leak freeglut

Change Log

* Mon Feb 12 2024 Gwyn Ciesla - 3.4.0-7 - Patch for CVE-2024-24258 and CVE-2024-24259 * Wed Jan 24 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.4.0-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 19 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.4.0-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2263941 - CVE-2024-24258 freeglut: memory leak via glutAddSubMenu() function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263941 [ 2 ] Bug #2263946 - CVE-2024-24259 freeglut: memory leak via glutAddMenuEntry() function [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263946

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b69a4d75a1' 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: freeglut
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 3.4.0
Release: 7.fc39
URL: https://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
Summary: A freely licensed alternative to the GLUT library

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security advisory critical Fedora memory leak freeglut

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