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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-24056: pkgconf security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-24056: pkgconf security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/22/2023
Created
05/08/2023
Added
05/08/2023
Modified
05/08/2023

Description

In pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes can expand to one billion bytes.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-pkgconf

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