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openSUSE Leap 42.3: openSUSE-SU-2019:0212-1 Moderate: PSPP Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Security enhancements in openSUSE: libreoffice and database-connector address a memory corruption vulnerability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for pspp to version 1.2.0 fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-20230: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in

read_bytes_internal function that could lead to denial-of-service

(bsc#1120061).

Other bug fixes and changes:

- Add upstream patch to avoid compiling with old Texinfo 4.13.

- New experimental command SAVE DATA COLLECTION to save MDD files.

- MTIME and YMDHMS variable formats now supported.

- Spread sheet rendering now done via spread-sheet-widget.

This update introduces a new package called spread-sheet-widget as

dependency.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update heap overflow openSUSE pspp spread-sheet-widget

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-2019-212=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libspread-sheet-widget0-0.3-2.1

libspread-sheet-widget0-debuginfo-0.3-2.1

spread-sheet-widget-debugsource-0.3-2.1

spread-sheet-widget-devel-0.3-2.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

pspp-1.2.0-11.1

pspp-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.1

pspp-debugsource-1.2.0-11.1

pspp-devel-1.2.0-11.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20230.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120061

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0212-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update heap overflow openSUSE pspp spread-sheet-widget

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