MGASA-2019-0325 - Updated fribidi packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0325.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-18397

Updated fribidi packages fix security vulnerability:

A stack buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex()
function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi 1.0.0 through 1.0.7 allows
an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is
then rendered by an  application that uses FriBidi for text layout
calculations (CVE-2019-18397).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25673
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/5
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18397

SRPMS:
- 7/core/fribidi-1.0.5-2.1.mga7

Mageia 2019-0325: fribidi security update

Updated fribidi packages fix security vulnerability: A stack buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi 1.0.0 throu...

Summary

Updated fribidi packages fix security vulnerability:
A stack buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi 1.0.0 through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations (CVE-2019-18397).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25673

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/08/5

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18397

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0325 - Updated fribidi packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/fribidi-1.0.5-2.1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 14 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0325.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-18397

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