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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2019:2332-01 Low: Advancecomp DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest Advancecomp enhancement brings forth minimal-impact remedies for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, tackling issues related to denial of service alongside null pointer vulnerabilities.
An update for advancecomp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

AdvanceCOMP is a set of recompression utilities for .PNG, .MNG and .ZIP files.
Security Fix(es):
* advancecomp: null pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h (CVE-2019-8379)
* advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c (CVE-2019-8383)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service red hat low impact advancecomp

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8379 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8383 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: advancecomp-1.15-21.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: advancecomp-1.15-21.el7.ppc64le.rpm advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-21.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: advancecomp-1.15-21.el7.x86_64.rpm advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
Source: advancecomp-1.15-21.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: advancecomp-1.15-21.el7.x86_64.rpm advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2332-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2332
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for advancecomp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service red hat low impact advancecomp

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1708561 - CVE-2019-8379 advancecomp: null pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h

1708563 - CVE-2019-8383 advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c

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