Advisories » MGASA-2018-0021

Updated libical packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Jan 2018
Modification date: 02 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2016-5824 , CVE-2016-5827 , CVE-2016-9584

Description

libical 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(use-after-free) via a crafted ics file (CVE-2016-5824).

The icaltime_from_string function in libical 0.47 and 1.0 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a
crafted string to the icalparser_parse_string function (CVE-2016-5827).

libical allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(use-after-free) and possibly read heap memory via a crafted ics file
(CVE-2016-9584).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21397
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-07/msg00108.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5824
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5827
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9584

SRPMS

6/core

• libical-2.0.0-2.1.mga6

5/core

• libical-1.0-4.1.mga5