Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0413

Updated libass packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 27 Aug 2021
Modification date: 27 Aug 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2020-36430

Description

Updated libass packages fix security vulnerability:

libass 0.15.x before 0.15.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in decode_chars
(called from decode_font and process_text) because the wrong integer data
type is used for subtraction (CVE-2020-36430).
                

References

SRPMS

8/core