Advisories » 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29392
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-August/009325.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36430

SRPMS

8/core

• libass-0.15.1-1.mga8