Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0073 Moderate: Gdisk Segfault And Crash
mageia
February 6, 2021
A bug that could cause segfault if GPT header claimed partition entries are oversized (CVE-2020-0256)
Summary
A bug that could cause segfault if GPT header claimed partition entries are
oversized (CVE-2020-0256).
A bug that could cause a crash if a badly-formatted MBR disk was read
(CVE-2021-0308).
The gdisk package has been updated to version 1.0.6, fixing these issues and
several other bugs. See the upstream NEWS file for details.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206
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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0256
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-0308
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/gdisk-1.0.6-1.mga7
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Publication date: 06 Feb 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0073.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-0256,
CVE-2021-0308
Topics Covered
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