1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5838-1

USN-5838-1: AdvanceCOMP vulnerabilities

Publication date

1 February 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in AdvanceCOMP.

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on MNG file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted MNG file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35014, CVE-2022-35017, CVE-2022-35018, CVE-2022-35019,
CVE-2022-35020)

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on ZIP file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35015,

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on MNG file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted MNG file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35014, CVE-2022-35017, CVE-2022-35018, CVE-2022-35019,
CVE-2022-35020)

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on ZIP file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35015, CVE-2022-35016)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic advancecomp –  2.3-1ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy advancecomp –  2.1-2.1ubuntu2.1
20.04 focal advancecomp –  2.1-2.1ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic advancecomp –  2.1-1ubuntu0.18.04.3
16.04 xenial advancecomp –  1.20-1ubuntu0.2+esm2  

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