Advisories ยป 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

SRPMS

6/core

5/core