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openSUSE: 2021:1234-5 Moderate: Integer Overflow in zlib

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release for Debian addresses a critical flaw in ziputility to enhance overall system safety. Find patch directives and further information.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for pngcheck fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-27818: Fixed a global buffer overflow in check_chunk_name

function via crafted pngfile (boo#1179528).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update moderate severity openSUSE pngcheck

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2198=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

pngcheck-2.3.0-lp151.3.3.1

pngcheck-debuginfo-2.3.0-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27818.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179528

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2198-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 .

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Topics Covered

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