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Bug 602622 (CVE-2016-9888) - <gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.41: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_file() (CVE-2016-9888)
Summary: <gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.41: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_fi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-9888
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-12-14 10:10 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-01-30 05:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Package list:
=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.41
Runtime testing required: ---
stable-bot: sanity-check+

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-12-14 10:10:24 UTC 
From ${URL} :

An error within the "tar_directory_for_file()" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a 
Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/GNOME/libgsf/commit/95a8351a75758cf10b3bf6abae0b6b461f90d9e5

References:

https://secunia.com/secunia_research/2016-17/


@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 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2017-01-09 22:07:14 UTC 
Bug 587010 isn't a strict dependency here, I don't think. The changes are minimal and a newer libgsf can be stabled independently, even if the previous stable for an arch is only 1.14.34 by the looks of it.
Thoman already rushed and edited the atoms in the gnome-3.20 bug, but that's fine to keep - those that haven't done it yet, can then skip 1.14.40 automatically.

Please stable =gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.41
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-10 14:56:48 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-10 15:25:27 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-11 10:52:35 UTC 
sparc stable
Comment 5 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2017-01-13 16:57:59 UTC 
arm stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 16:04:42 UTC 
ppc stable
Comment 7 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 22:21:00 UTC 
Stable on alpha.
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 14:40:15 UTC 
ia64 stable
Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-18 10:05:48 UTC 
ppc64 stable
Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-21 12:10:01 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 11 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-30 01:10:25 UTC 
GLSA Vote: No


@ Maintainer(s): Please cleanup and drop <gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.41!
Comment 12 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2017-01-30 04:58:53 UTC 
cleanup done