Advisories » MGASA-2015-0161

Updated potrace packages fix CVE-2013-7437

Publication date: 18 Apr 2015
Modification date: 18 Apr 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2013-7437

Description

Updated potrace packages fix security vulnerability:

Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers
a buffer overflow (CVE-2013-7437).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15658
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00016.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7437

SRPMS

4/core

• potrace-1.11-3.1.mga4