MGASA-2019-0290 - Updated libheif packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 27 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0290.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-11471

libheif 1.4.0 has a use-after-free in heif::HeifContext::Image::
set_alpha_channel in heif_context.h because heif_context.cc mishandles
references to non-existing alpha images (CVE-2019-11471).

Also, imagemagick has been updated to 7.0.8.62 to fix various bugs.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25319
- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.4.1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11471

SRPMS:
- 7/tainted/libheif-1.4.1-1.mga7.tainted
- 7/tainted/imagemagick-7.0.8.62-1.mga7.tainted

Mageia 2019-0290: libheif security update

libheif 1.4.0 has a use-after-free in heif::HeifContext::Image:: set_alpha_channel in heif_context.h because heif_context.cc mishandles references to non-existing alpha images (CVE...

Summary

libheif 1.4.0 has a use-after-free in heif::HeifContext::Image:: set_alpha_channel in heif_context.h because heif_context.cc mishandles references to non-existing alpha images (CVE-2019-11471).
Also, imagemagick has been updated to 7.0.8.62 to fix various bugs.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25319

- https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.4.1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11471

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0290 - Updated libheif packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/tainted/libheif-1.4.1-1.mga7.tainted

- 7/tainted/imagemagick-7.0.8.62-1.mga7.tainted

Severity
Publication date: 27 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0290.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-11471

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