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Mageia 8: 2023-0046 Critical: libzen Null Pointer Dereference Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
A significant security bulletin has been issued for Mageia, highlighting a severe vulnerability within libzen that compromises local date interpretation. Dive into the patch!
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MediaArea ZenLib up to 0.4.38

Summary

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MediaArea ZenLib up to 0.4.38. This affects the function Ztring::Date_From_Seconds_1970_Local of the file Source/ZenLib/Ztring.cpp. The manipulation of the argument Value leads to unchecked return value to null pointer dereference. (CVE-2020-36646)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31492

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00029.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36646

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libzen-0.4.38-1.1.mga8

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Publication date: 14 Feb 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0046.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-36646

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