Product Errata

RLSA-2022:7514

Moderate: fribidi security update

Topic

An update is available for fribidi.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

FriBidi is 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: Stack based buffer overflow (CVE-2022-25308)

* fribidi: Heap-buffer-overflow in fribidi_cap_rtl_to_unicode (CVE-2022-25309)

* fribidi: SEGV in fribidi_remove_bidi_marks (CVE-2022-25310)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 11/8/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references