MGASA-2019-0249 - Updated sigil packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0249.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6, 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14452

Updated sigil package fixes security vulnerability:

Mike Salvatore discovered that Sigil mishandled certain malformed EPUB
files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files
to the filesystem (CVE-2019-14452).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25290
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4085-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14452

SRPMS:
- 6/core/sigil-0.9.16-1.mga6
- 7/core/sigil-0.9.16-1.mga7

Mageia 2019-0249: sigil security update

Updated sigil package fixes security vulnerability: Mike Salvatore discovered that Sigil mishandled certain malformed EPUB files

Summary

Updated sigil package fixes security vulnerability:
Mike Salvatore discovered that Sigil mishandled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem (CVE-2019-14452).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25290

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4085-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14452

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0249 - Updated sigil packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/sigil-0.9.16-1.mga6

- 7/core/sigil-0.9.16-1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 06 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0249.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14452

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