USN-6258-1: LLVM Toolchain vulnerabilities

Publication date

27 July 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in LLVM Toolchain.


Packages

Details

It was discovered that LLVM Toolchain did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted MLIR file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LLVM
Toolchain to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-29932,
CVE-2023-29934, CVE-2023-29939)

It was discovered that LLVM Toolchain did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted MLIR file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LLVM
Toolchain to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected llvm-toolchain-15. (CVE-2023-29933)

It was discovered that LLVM Toolchain did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted MLIR file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LLVM
Toolchain to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-29932,
CVE-2023-29934, CVE-2023-29939)

It was discovered that LLVM Toolchain did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted MLIR file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LLVM
Toolchain to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected llvm-toolchain-15. (CVE-2023-29933)

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:


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