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Red Hat: CVE-2022-1923: Potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using bz2 decompression (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-1923: Potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using bz2 decompression (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2022
Created
05/15/2023
Added
05/15/2023
Modified
09/03/2024

Description

DOS / potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using bzip decompression. Integer overflow in matroskademux element in bzip decompression function which causes a segfault, or could cause a heap overwrite, depending on libc and OS. Depending on the libc used, and the underlying OS capabilities, it could be just a segfault or a heap overwrite. If the libc uses mmap for large chunks, and the OS supports mmap, then it is just a segfault (because the realloc before the integer overflow will use mremap to reduce the size of the chunk, and it will start to write to unmapped memory). However, if using a libc implementation that does not use mmap, or if the OS does not support mmap while using libc, then this could result in a heap overwrite.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt-debuginfo

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