Advisories » MGASA-2017-0217

Updated graphite2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 25 Jul 2017
Modification date: 25 Jul 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-5436 , CVE-2017-7771 , CVE-2017-7772 , CVE-2017-7773 , CVE-2017-7774 , CVE-2017-7775 , CVE-2017-7776 , CVE-2017-7777 , CVE-2017-7778

Description

An out-of-bounds write triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite
font could lead to a crash or potentially code execution
(CVE-2017-5436).

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Graphite font rendering
engine which might result in denial of service or the execution of
arbitrary code if a malformed font file is processed (CVE-2017-7771,
CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775,
CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20778
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-05/msg00053.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3894
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5436
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7771
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7772
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7773
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7774
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7775
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7776
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7777
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7778

SRPMS

5/core

• graphite2-1.3.10-1.mga5