Mageia alert MGASA-2022-0176 (gerbv)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2022-0176: Updated gerbv packages fix security vulnerability
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Thu, 12 May 2022 12:25:51 +0200
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Article
MGASA-2022-0176 - Updated gerbv packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0176.html
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
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4...

SRPMS:
- 8/core/gerbv-2.7.0-3.1.mga8