Advisories » MGASA-2021-0073

Updated gdisk package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 06 Feb 2021
Modification date: 06 Feb 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-0256 , CVE-2021-0308

Description

A bug that could cause segfault if GPT header claimed partition entries are
oversized (CVE-2020-0256).

A bug that could cause a crash if a badly-formatted MBR disk was read
(CVE-2021-0308).

The gdisk package has been updated to version 1.0.6, fixing these issues and
several other bugs.  See the upstream NEWS file for details.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28206
• https://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/code/ci/6180deb472c302c47f4d4acff8f2123d10824364/tree/NEWS
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0256
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-0308

SRPMS

7/core

• gdisk-1.0.6-1.mga7