SB2016042110 - Buffer overflow in Novell Opensuse
Published: April 21, 2016 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016042110
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3190)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The fill_xrgb32_lerp_opaque_spans function in cairo-image-compositor.c in cairo before 1.14.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a negative span length.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00029.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318977
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/patch/src/cairo-image-compositor.c?id=5c82d91a5e15d29b1489dcb413b24ee7fdf59934
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2015-March/msg00047.html