Synopsis

Important: fribidi security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for fribidi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

A library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic), so that the display is done in the proper way, while the text data itself is always written in logical order.

Security Fix(es):

• fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution (CVE-2019-18397)

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.

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1768750 - CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2019-18397

References