Mageia: 2019-0338 Critical: Bzip2 Out-of-Bounds Write Fix
mageia
November 30, 2019
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write when there are many selectors
Summary
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds
write when there are many selectors. (CVE-2019-12900)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24900
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/03/3
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/04/3
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/bzip2-devel/2019-q2/msg00022.html
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/bzip2-devel/2019-q3/msg00031.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4038-1
- - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12900
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/bzip2-1.0.8-1.mga7
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Publication date: 30 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0338.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-12900
Topics Covered
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