Advisories » MGASA-2022-0176

Updated gerbv packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2022
Modification date: 12 May 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-40403

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the pick-and-place
rotation parsing functionality of Gerbv 2.7.0 and dev (commit b5f1eacd),
and Gerbv forked 2.8.0. A specially-crafted pick-and-place file can
exploit the missing initialization of a structure to leak memory contents.
An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
(CVE-2021-40403)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30391
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/PTGBC37N2FV7NKOWFVCFMPAFYEPHSB7C/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40403

SRPMS

8/core

• gerbv-2.7.0-3.1.mga8