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Bug 587574 (CVE-2016-5824)

Summary: <dev-libs/libical-3.0.0: Multiple heap over-read vulnerabilities
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: asturm, slawomir.nizio
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350481
Whiteboard: A2 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 587572    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-06-30 10:01:23 UTC
From ${URL} :

Multiple heap over-read issues were identified in libical.

Upstream bugs (not public yet):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281041
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/604


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Joakim Tjernlund 2016-09-06 13:43:19 UTC
There is a libical-2.0.0 since late July, should be possible to stabilize
that one now.
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-12 23:43:02 UTC
@ Joakim: Our version in tree (dev-libs/libical-2.0.0-r1 as of today) _is_ affected.
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2019-04-02 04:18:51 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201904-02 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-02
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).