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Gentoo: GLSA-202210-16 High: OpenSSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2022
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GDAL may lead to service disruptions; users advised to update to the most recent version.
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in GDAL which could result in denial of service.

Summary

GDAL does not sufficiently sanitize input when loading PCIDSK binary segments.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo buffer overflow heap overflow low severity gdal

Resolution

All GDAL users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sci-libs/gdal-3.4.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2021-45943 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45943

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-15
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: GDAL: Heap Buffer Overflow
Date: October 31, 2022
Bugs: #830370
ID: 202210-15

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo buffer overflow heap overflow low severity gdal

Synopsis

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in GDAL which could result in denial of service.

Background

GDAL is a geospatial data abstraction library.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sci-libs/gdal < 3.4.1 >= 3.4.1

Impact

===== Loading crafted PCIDSK data via GDAL could result in denial of service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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