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Mageia 7, 8: 2021-0128 Moderate Local Code Execution via Libcaca Overflow

mageia
Calendar Grey March 11, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised libcaca distributions fix a buffer overflow vulnerability, enabling local arbitrary code execution in Mageia systems. Discover further details.
A buffer overflow issue in caca_resize function in libcaca/caca/canvas.c may lead to local execution of arbitrary code in the user context (CVE-2021-3410)

Summary

A buffer overflow issue in caca_resize function in libcaca/caca/canvas.c may lead to local execution of arbitrary code in the user context (CVE-2021-3410).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28556

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00006.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3410

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libcaca-0.99-0.beta19.5.1.mga8

- 7/core/libcaca-0.99-0.beta19.3.1.mga7

Publication date: 12 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0128.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3410

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