Category Archives: Advisories

USN-5379-1: klibc vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that klibc did not properly perform
some mathematical operations, leading to an integer overflow.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-31870)

It was discovered that klibc did not properly handled some
memory allocations on 64 bit systems. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2021-31871)

It was discovered that klibc did not properly handled some file
sizes values on 32 bit systems. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-31872)

It was discovered that klibc did not properly handled some
memory allocations. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-31873)

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DSA-5122 gzip – security update

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cleemy desu wayo reported that incorrect handling of filenames by zgrep
in gzip, the GNU compression utilities, can result in overwrite of
arbitrary files or execution of arbitrary code if a file with a
specially crafted filename is processed.

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xen-4.14.5-1.fc34

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FEDORA-2022-64b2c02d29

Packages in this update:

xen-4.14.5-1.fc34

Update description:

update to xen-4.14.5

Racy interactions between dirty vram tracking and paging log dirty
hypercalls [XSA-397, CVE-2022-26356]
race in VT-d domain ID cleanup [XSA-399, CVE-2022-26357]
IOMMU: RMRR (VT-d) and unity map (AMD-Vi) handling issues [XSA-400,
CVE-2022-26358, CVE-2022-26359, CVE-2022-26360, CVE-2022-26361]

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