Advisories » MGASA-2016-0077

Updated graphite2/firefox packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Feb 2016
Modification date: 17 Feb 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1521 , CVE-2016-1522 , CVE-2016-1523 , CVE-2016-1526

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in the graphite2 font library can result in
information disclosure, denial-of-service (application crashes), or code
execution via out-of-bounds reads, a NULL pointer dereference, and a
heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523,
CVE-2016-1526).

Firefox includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has been
updated in Firefox ESR 38.6.1.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17780
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0057/
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0060/
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/
• http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-14/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3477
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1521
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1522
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1523
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1526

SRPMS

5/core

• firefox-38.6.1-1.mga5
• firefox-l10n-38.6.1-1.mga5
• graphite2-1.3.5-1.mga5