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Red Hat 8 RHSA-2022-7514-01 Moderate: Fribidi Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical fribidi patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 addresses vulnerabilities related to stack and heap overflows, enhancing system security.
An update for fribidi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

FriBidi is a library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic), so that the display is done in the proper way, while the text data itself is always written in logical order.
Security Fix(es):
* fribidi: Stack based buffer overflow (CVE-2022-25308)
* fribidi: Heap-buffer-overflow in fribidi_cap_rtl_to_unicode (CVE-2022-25309)
* fribidi: SEGV in fribidi_remove_bidi_marks (CVE-2022-25310)
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 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat software update security fix moderate severity fribidi

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25308 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25309 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25310 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.aarch64.rpm fribidi-debuginfo-1.0.4-9.el8.aarch64.rpm fribidi-debugsource-1.0.4-9.el8.aarch64.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.4-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm fribidi-debuginfo-1.0.4-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm fribidi-debugsource-1.0.4-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.4-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.s390x.rpm fribidi-debuginfo-1.0.4-9.el8.s390x.rpm fribidi-debugsource-1.0.4-9.el8.s390x.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.4-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.i686.rpm fribidi-1.0.4-9.el8.x86_64.rpm fribidi-debuginfo-1.0.4-9.el8.i686.rpm fribidi-debuginfo-1.0.4-9.el8.x86_64.rpm fribidi-debugsource-1.0.4-9.el8.i686.rpm fribidi-debugsource-1.0.4-9.el8.x86_64.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.4-9.el8.i686.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.4-9.el8.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-2022:7514-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7514
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for fribidi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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 buffer overflow red hat software update security fix moderate severity fribidi

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2047890 - CVE-2022-25308 fribidi: Stack based buffer overflow

2047896 - CVE-2022-25309 fribidi: Heap-buffer-overflow in fribidi_cap_rtl_to_unicode

2047923 - CVE-2022-25310 fribidi: SEGV in fribidi_remove_bidi_marks

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