Mageia 6 - MGASA-2018-0448 Moderate: NULL Pointer And Double-Free Flaws
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November 15, 2018
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way patch processed patch files
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way patch processed
patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash patch
by tricking it into processing crafted patches (CVE-2018-6951).
A double-free flaw was found in the way the patch utility processed
patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the
patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patches
(CVE-2018-6952).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23704
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DTAZPKCAJTAOK6CYQP7SPWNXDIAG4A37/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6951
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6952
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/patch-2.7.6-1.1.mga6
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Publication date: 15 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0448.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-6951,
CVE-2018-6952
Topics Covered
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