Advisories » MGASA-2019-0338

Updated bzip2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 30 Nov 2019
Modification date: 30 Nov 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-12900

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

BZ2_decompress in decompress.c in bzip2 through 1.0.6 has an out-of-bounds
 write when there are many selectors. (CVE-2019-12900)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24900
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/03/3
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/04/3
• https://sourceware.org/ml/bzip2-devel/2019-q2/msg00022.html
• https://sourceware.org/ml/bzip2-devel/2019-q3/msg00031.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4038-1/
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2019-07/msg00106.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12900

SRPMS

7/core

• bzip2-1.0.8-1.mga7