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Fedora 40: Advisory for Mingw-Freeimage Critical Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Updates for MinGW-FreeImage resolve buffer overflow vulnerabilities and eliminate infinite loop concerns in Fedora 40. Consider upgrading immediately.
Add downstream fixes for CVE-2023-47995 and CVE-2023-47997.

Summary

MinGW Windows freeimage library.

Update Information:

Add downstream fixes for CVE-2023-47995 and CVE-2023-47997.

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security advisory security issue fedora buffer overflow infinite loop mingw-freeimage downstream fix

Change Log

* Sun Mar 10 2024 Sandro Mani - 3.19.0-0.20.svn1909 - Add downstream patches for CVE-2023-47997, CVE-2023-47995

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2257661 - CVE-2023-47995 freeimage: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FreeImage_AllocateBitmap [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257661 [ 2 ] Bug #2257665 - CVE-2023-47997 freeimage: infinite loop exits in Load in PluginTIFF.cpp [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257665 [ 3 ] Bug #2257666 - CVE-2023-47995 mingw-freeimage: FreeImage: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FreeImage_AllocateBitmap [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257666 [ 4 ] Bug #2257670 - CVE-2023-47997 mingw-freeimage: FreeImage: infinite loop exits in Load in PluginTIFF.cpp [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257670

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-c4d32d51c9' 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: mingw-freeimage
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 3.19.0
Release: 0.20.svn1909.fc40
URL: https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
Summary: MinGW Windows freeimage library

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security advisory security issue fedora buffer overflow infinite loop mingw-freeimage downstream fix

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