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Mageia 9 MGASA-2024-0165 Critical Memory Leak in Freeglut

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2024
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Mageia 9 has issued important security advisories on Freeglut, revealing critical memory leak vulnerabilities. Users are urged to update ASAP to safeguard their systems
freeglut 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddSubMenu function

Summary

freeglut 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddSubMenu function. (CVE-2024-24258) freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEntry function. (CVE-2024-24259)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33167

- https://lwn.net/Articles/971670/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24258

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24259

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update memory leak mageia freeglut

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/freeglut-3.4.0-1.1.mga9

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 09 May 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0165.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-24258, CVE-2024-24259

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update memory leak mageia freeglut

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