Mageia 6 MGASA-2018-0405 Moderate: Glib2.0 Null Pointer Issue
mageia
October 19, 2018
The updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c has a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2018-16428)
Summary
The updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities:
In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c
has a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2018-16428).
GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in
g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str()
(CVE-2018-16429).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23665
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3767-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16428
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16429
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/glib2.0-2.54.3-1.2.mga6
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Publication date: 19 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0405.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-16428,
CVE-2018-16429
Topics Covered
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