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Mageia 8: 2022-0012 Moderate: Ghostscript Memory Issues Fix

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
New ghostscript updates resolve significant memory problems impacting Mageia 8 users. Corrections disclosed on January 11, 2022.
Use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp)

Summary

Use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944) Heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29860

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00004.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45944

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45949

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/ghostscript-9.53.3-2.2.mga8

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Publication date: 11 Jan 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0012.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-45944, CVE-2021-45949

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