Bug 33088 - xfig new security issue CVE-2023-45920
Summary: xfig new security issue CVE-2023-45920
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact: Sec team
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA9-64-OK
Keywords: advisory, validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-04-10 15:47 CEST by Nicolas Salguero
Modified: 2024-04-12 22:46 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: xfig-3.2.8b-3.mga9.src.rpm
CVE: CVE-2023-45920
Status comment:

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Description Nicolas Salguero 2024-04-10 15:47:44 CEST 
SUSE has issued an advisory on April 10:
https://lwn.net/Articles/969307/

According to https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-45920, the problem is fix in 3.2.9 or with: https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/xfig/ci/ec49cde00dbd6f7f45d8e386795079d5d636496f/

Mageia 9 is also affected.
Nicolas Salguero 2024-04-10 15:48:28 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => xfig-3.2.8b-3.mga9.src.rpm
CVE: (none) => CVE-2023-45920
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9TOO
Status comment: (none) => Fixed upstream in 3.2.9 and patch available from upstream

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2024-04-10 21:29:43 CEST 
The URL for xfig should be https://mcj.sourceforge.net/, but https://www.xfig.org/ gets you there.
It announces xfig.3.2.9 Aug 2023, but makes no mention of this CVE error in 'bugs fixed'; but the Debian tracker page does say "1:3.2.9-2	fixed".
The patch (thanks for finding it) is straightforward.

Different packagers commit xfig, so assigning this globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Nicolas Salguero 2024-04-11 16:00:15 CEST 
Suggested advisory:
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The updated package fixes a security vulnerability:

Xfig v3.2.8 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference when calling XGetWMHints(). (CVE-2023-45920)

References:
https://lwn.net/Articles/969307/
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Updated package in core/updates_testing:
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xfig-3.2.8b-3.1.mga9

from SRPM:
xfig-3.2.8b-3.1.mga9.src.rpm

Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs
Status comment: Fixed upstream in 3.2.9 and patch available from upstream => (none)
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: MGA9TOO => (none)
Version: Cauldron => 9

katnatek 2024-04-12 01:05:56 CEST

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 3 Herman Viaene 2024-04-12 14:38:21 CEST 
MGA9-64 Plasma Wayland on HP-Pavillion.
No installation issues.
Ref bug 31650 Comment 4:
Opened xfig, draw some shapes, rotated anf flipped some objects, saved the file and re-opened it. All my scriblings were there.
Tried this time krita to open this file, but no go.
Good enough to let go.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9-64-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 4 Thomas Andrews 2024-04-12 19:40:06 CEST 
Validating.

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

Comment 5 Mageia Robot 2024-04-12 22:46:05 CEST 
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0125.html

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