Low: advancecomp security update

Synopsis

Low: advancecomp security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for advancecomp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

AdvanceCOMP is a set of recompression utilities for .PNG, .MNG and .ZIP files.

Security Fix(es):

• advancecomp: null pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h (CVE-2019-8379)
  
• advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c (CVE-2019-8383)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1708561 - CVE-2019-8379 advancecomp: null pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h
• BZ - 1708563 - CVE-2019-8383 advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c

CVEs

• CVE-2019-8379
• CVE-2019-8383

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index