MGASA-2022-0176 - Updated gerbv packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 12 May 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0176.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2021-40403 An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability. (CVE-2021-40403) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30391 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40403 SRPMS: - 8/core/gerbv-2.7.0-3.1.mga8
Mageia 2022-0176: gerbv security update
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd), and Gerbv forked 2.8.0
Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place
rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd),
and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can
exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents.
An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
(CVE-2021-40403)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30391
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40403
Resolution
MGASA-2022-0176 - Updated gerbv packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/gerbv-2.7.0-3.1.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 12 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0176.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-40403
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