ALAS2-2023-2173

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-21682  

A global buffer overflow in the set_fill component in genge.c of fig2dev 3.2.7b allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via converting a xfig file into ge format. (CVE-2020-21682)

ALAS2-2023-2173


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2173
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-20 17:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-25 23:06 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A global buffer overflow in the set_fill component in genge.c of fig2dev 3.2.7b allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via converting a xfig file into ge format. (CVE-2020-21682)


Affected Packages:

transfig


Issue Correction:
Run yum update transfig to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    transfig-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.aarch64
    transfig-debuginfo-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    transfig-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.i686
    transfig-debuginfo-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.i686

src:
    transfig-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    transfig-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.x86_64
    transfig-debuginfo-3.2.8b-7.amzn2.x86_64