ALAS2-2019-1152


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1152
Advisory Release Date: 2019-01-23 23:27 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-01-25 01:04 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the TOLOWER() macro for CHM decompression.(CVE-2018-14682)

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. It does not reject blank CHM filenames.(CVE-2018-14680)

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks, which could lead to denial of service (uninitialized data dereference and application crash).(CVE-2018-14679)

An issue was discovered in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. Bad KWAJ file header extensions could cause a one or two byte overwrite.(CVE-2018-14681)


Affected Packages:

libmspack


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libmspack to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libmspack-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libmspack-devel-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libmspack-debuginfo-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    libmspack-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libmspack-devel-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libmspack-debuginfo-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    libmspack-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    libmspack-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libmspack-devel-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libmspack-debuginfo-0.5-0.6.alpha.amzn2.0.1.x86_64