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Mageia 8: 2023-0179 Moderate: Patchelf Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Patchelf releases new versions addressing a critical out-of-bounds read security flaw found in Mageia, officially launched on May 21, 2023.
Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc

Summary

Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc. (CVE-2022-44940)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31880

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6036-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-44940

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity vulnerability out-of-bounds read Mageia Patchelf

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/patchelf-0.16.1-1.mga8

Publication date: 21 May 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0179.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-44940

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity vulnerability out-of-bounds read Mageia Patchelf

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