Advisories » MGASA-2020-0008

Updated advancecomp packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
Modification date: 05 Jan 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-8383

Description

Updated advancecomp package fixes security vulnerability:

An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address
occurs in the function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by
sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of
Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a
victim opens a specially crafted file (CVE-2019-8383).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25908
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/J23C6QSTJMQ467KAI6QG54AE4MZRLPQV/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8383

SRPMS

7/core

• advancecomp-2.1-4.1.mga7