Bug#892599: afflib: CVE-2018-8050

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Sun Mar 11 09:40:57 UTC 2018


Source: afflib
Version: 3.7.5-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for afflib.

CVE-2018-8050[0]:
| The af_get_page() function in lib/afflib_pages.cpp in AFFLIB (aka
| AFFLIBv3) through 3.7.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
| service (segmentation fault) via a corrupt AFF image that triggers an
| unexpected pagesize value.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8050
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8050
[1] https://github.com/sshock/AFFLIBv3/commit/435a2ca802358a3debb6d164d2c33049131df81c

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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