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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2016-0077
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
9.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0077
Insight
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities in the graphite2 font library can result in information disclosure, denial-of-service (application crashes), or code execution via out-of-bounds reads, a NULL pointer dereference, and a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526). Firefox includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has been updated in Firefox ESR 38.6.1.
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.