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Medium ALAS2-2019-1328 2 CVEs

Moderate: mercurial security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 21, 2019 · Updated Oct 23, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-8383: An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address occurs in the function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file. 99999: CVE-2019-8383 advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c CVE-2019-8379: An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function be_uint32_read() located in endianrw.h. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file. 99999: CVE-2019-8379 advancecomp: null pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-mercurial 0:2.6.2-10.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 emacs-mercurial-el 0:2.6.2-10.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mercurial 0:2.6.2-10.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mercurial-debuginfo 0:2.6.2-10.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mercurial-hgk 0:2.6.2-10.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-8379.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-8383.html