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Mageia 9: djvulibre Important Out-of-Bounds Code Execution MGASA-2025-0209

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2025
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Explore the essential djvulibre patch in Mageia, which mitigates potential code execution threats arising from specially designed documents.
An out-of-bounds write in the MMRDecoder::scanruns method was fixed

Summary

An out-of-bounds write in the MMRDecoder::scanruns method was fixed. The vulnerability could be exploited to gain code execution on a Linux Desktop system when the user tries to open a crafted document.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34423

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/03/1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7631-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53367

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution important out-of-bounds djvulibre Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/djvulibre-3.5.29-1.mga9

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 19 Jul 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0209.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-53367

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution important out-of-bounds djvulibre Mageia

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