Advisories » MGASA-2016-0297

Updated eog packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Aug 2016
Modification date: 31 Aug 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6855

Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in eog was found when processing specially
crafted SVG file. Due to passing the error message containing invalid UTF-8
character to GMarkup, out-of-bounds access is triggered (CVE-2016-6855).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19244
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6855

SRPMS

5/core

• eog-3.14.3-1.2.mga5