Re: over 2000 packages depend on abort()ing libgmp

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Posted by Georgi Guninski on Oct 16

Observe that ubuntu issue advisory about libgmp crash
without mentioning potential exploitability.

quote:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5672-1

Details
12 October 2022

It was discovered that GMP did not properly manage memory
on 32-bit platforms when processing a specially crafted
input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
applications using GMP to crash, resulting in a denial of
service.

References
CVE-2021-43618

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