Bug 26557 - gnuchess new security issue CVE-2019-15767
Summary: gnuchess new security issue CVE-2019-15767
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 7
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact: Sec team
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA7-64-OK
Keywords: advisory, validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-04-28 03:46 CEST by David Walser
Modified: 2020-05-05 14:22 CEST (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: gnuchess-6.2.5-3.mga7.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments

Description David Walser 2020-04-28 03:46:39 CEST
Fedora has issued an advisory today (April 27):
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TB4FURVE4C35UDXGAAHJL5NIHJQ3WDZT/

The issue is fixed upstream in 6.2.6.
David Walser 2020-04-28 03:46:52 CEST

Status comment: (none) => Fixed upstream in 6.2.6

Comment 1 David GEIGER 2020-04-28 07:13:23 CEST
Done for mga7!
Comment 2 David Walser 2020-04-28 16:30:35 CEST
Advisory:
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Updated gnuchess package fixes security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was found in GNU Chess 6.2.5, there is a stack-based buffer
overflow in the cmd_load function in frontend/cmd.cc via a crafted chess
position in an EPD file (CVE-2019-15767).

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15767
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TB4FURVE4C35UDXGAAHJL5NIHJQ3WDZT/
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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gnuchess-6.2.6-1.mga7

from gnuchess-6.2.6-1.mga7.src.rpm

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Status comment: Fixed upstream in 6.2.6 => (none)
Assignee: geiger.david68210 => qa-bugs

Comment 3 Brian Rockwell 2020-04-28 20:23:55 CEST
Installed

was able to start it at the command line.

installed xboard - that worked as well.

good enough to me.

CC: (none) => brtians1

Brian Rockwell 2020-04-29 14:43:19 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK

Comment 4 Thomas Andrews 2020-04-30 18:14:09 CEST
Validating. Advisory in Comment 2.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

Thomas Backlund 2020-05-05 11:36:35 CEST

CC: (none) => tmb
Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 5 Mageia Robot 2020-05-05 14:22:43 CEST
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0194.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED


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