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openSUSE: 2018:3819-1 Low: Libmatroska Use-After-Free Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security update for libmatroska and mkvtoolnix in openSUSE Leap fixes a significant use-after-free vulnerability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for libmatroska, mkvtoolnix fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-4022: Fixed use-after-free vulnerability that existed in the

way MKV (matroska) file format was handled (bsc#1113709).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1432=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1432=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1432=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libmatroska-debugsource-1.4.9-4.3.1

libmatroska-devel-1.4.9-4.3.1

libmatroska6-1.4.9-4.3.1

libmatroska6-debuginfo-1.4.9-4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libmatroska6-32bit-1.4.9-4.3.1

libmatroska6-debuginfo-32bit-1.4.9-4.3.1

mkvtoolnix-28.2.0-8.1

mkvtoolnix-debuginfo-28.2.0-8.1

mkvtoolnix-debugsource-28.2.0-8.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-28.2.0-8.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-debuginfo-28.2.0-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

mkvtoolnix-28.2.0-lp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-debuginfo-28.2.0-lp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-debugsource-28.2.0-lp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-28.2.0-lp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-debuginfo-28.2.0-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

mkvtoolnix-28.2.0-bp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-debuginfo-28.2.0-bp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-debugsource-28.2.0-bp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-28.2.0-bp150.2.3.1

mkvtoolnix-gui-debuginfo-28.2.0-bp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-4022.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113709

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3819-1
Rating: low
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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