Advisories » MGASA-2018-0170

Updated SDL_image packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
Modification date: 19 Mar 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-2887

Description

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XCF property
handling functionality of SDL_image 2.0.1. A specially crafted xcf file
can cause a stack-based buffer overflow resulting in potential code
execution. An attacker can provide a specially crafted XCF file to
trigger this vulnerability (CVE-2017-2887).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22650
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2887/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2887

SRPMS

6/core

• SDL_image-1.2.12-9.1.mga6
• mingw-SDL_image-1.2.12-13.1.mga6

5/core

• SDL_image-1.2.12-8.1.mga5