Advisories » MGASA-2018-0448

Updated patch packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 15 Nov 2018
Modification date: 15 Nov 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-6951 , CVE-2018-6952

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way patch processed
patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash patch
by tricking it into processing crafted patches (CVE-2018-6951).

A double-free flaw was found in the way the patch utility processed
patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the
patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patches
(CVE-2018-6952).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23704
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DTAZPKCAJTAOK6CYQP7SPWNXDIAG4A37/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6951
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6952

SRPMS

6/core

• patch-2.7.6-1.1.mga6