Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0305

Updated p7zip package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 30 Jun 2021
Modification date: 30 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3465

Description

In p7zip-17.03, the function NCompress::CCopyCoder::Code in
CPP/7zip/Common/StreamObjects.cpp will call outStream->Write where a memcpy
uses a NULL pointer as destination address, leading to a crash (CVE-2021-3465).

Null pointer dereference in function Reserve() found in p7zip 16.02
(rhbz#1951218).

Null Pointer Dereference  in function NArchive::NLzh::CItem::GetUnixTime found
in p7zip 16.02 (rhbz#1951224).

The p7zip package has been patched to fix these issues.

Also, the Mageia 7 package has been updated to version 17.03.
                

References

SRPMS

8/core

7/core