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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:0890-1 Critical: Vim Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 24, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest patch addresses vulnerabilities in graphite2 that could lead to untrusted code execution and potential service disruptions.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for graphite2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-1521: The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in

Libgraphite did not validate a certain skip operation, which allowed

remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information,

or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash)

via a crafted Graphite smart font.

- CVE-2016-1523: The SillMap::readFace function in FeatureMap.cpp in

Libgraphite mishandled a return value, which allowed remote attackers to

cause a denial of service (missing initialization, NULL pointer

dereference, and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.

- CVE-2016-1526: The TtfUtil:LocaLookup function in TtfUtil.cpp in

Libgraphite incorrectly validated a size value, which allowed remote

attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service

(out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart

...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-389=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

graphite2-1.3.1-3.1

graphite2-debuginfo-1.3.1-3.1

graphite2-debugsource-1.3.1-3.1

graphite2-devel-1.3.1-3.1

libgraphite2-3-1.3.1-3.1

libgraphite2-3-debuginfo-1.3.1-3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libgraphite2-3-32bit-1.3.1-3.1

libgraphite2-3-debuginfo-32bit-1.3.1-3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1521.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1523.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1526.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965803

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965807

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965810

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0875-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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