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Mageia: 2018-0443 Moderate: OpenCC Out Of Bounds Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest patch for opencc packages resolves a significant vulnerability, safeguarding Mageia systems from possible Denial of Service scenarios.
It was discovered that opencc contained an out of bounds pointer in BinaryDict.cpp which could lead to segment fault and a Denial of Service (CVE-2018-16982)

Summary

It was discovered that opencc contained an out of bounds pointer in BinaryDict.cpp which could lead to segment fault and a Denial of Service (CVE-2018-16982).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23764

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/GDWZHBV4B3VZTM4ACXQMZKSLTIKFJUUO/

- https://github.com/BYVoid/OpenCC/issues/303

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16982

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/opencc-1.0.3-3.1.mga6

Publication date: 11 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0443.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-16982

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