Security update for libwmf

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:1560-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-9011 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2019-6978 ( SUSE ): 4.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
  • CVE-2019-6978 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 12-SP5

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for libwmf fixes the following issues:

libwmf was updated to 0.2.12:

  • upstream changed to fork from Fedora: https://github.com/caolanm/libwmf
  • merged all the pending fixes
  • merge in fixes for libgd CVE-2019-6978 (bsc#1123522)

  • fixed memory allocation failure (CVE-2016-9011)

  • Fixes for %_libexecdir changing to /usr/libexec (bsc#1174075)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2022-1560=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 12-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP5-2022-1560=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libwmf-0_2-7-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-gnome-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-gnome-debuginfo-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-devel-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-tools-debuginfo-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-0_2-7-debuginfo-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-debugsource-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-tools-0.2.12-243.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 12-SP5 (x86_64)
    • libwmf-0_2-7-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-0_2-7-debuginfo-0.2.12-243.3.1
    • libwmf-debugsource-0.2.12-243.3.1

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