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Mageia: MGASA-2023-0275 Critical: Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2023-0275: Revised indent module resolves heap overread and buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Mageia.
GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file

Summary

GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file. (CVE-2023-40305)
GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap overread in lexi().

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32273

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40305

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MIUH3F63KQJWYR3FLKRZUYYRJOY6FYX/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023--40305

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow mageia heap overread indent

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/indent-2.2.13-1.1.mga9

- 8/core/indent-2.2.13-1.1.mga8

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Publication date: 30 Sep 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0274.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023--40305

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow mageia heap overread indent

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