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High ALAS2-2020-1434 1 CVE

Important: fribidi security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 3, 2020 · Updated Jun 3, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-18397: A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations. Examples include any GNOME or GTK+ based application that uses Pango for text layout, as this internally uses FriBidi for bidirectional text layout. For example, the attacker can construct a crafted text file to be opened in GEdit, or a crafted IRC message to be viewed in HexChat. 1768750: CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 fribidi 0:1.0.2-1.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 fribidi-debuginfo 0:1.0.2-1.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 fribidi-devel 0:1.0.2-1.amzn2.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-18397.html