Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Shapelib vulnerability (USN-8992-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8992-1 advisory. It was discovered that the shpsort utility in Shapelib incorrectly handled certain inputs, leading to a double free. An attack...

A double-free condition exists in contrib/shpsort.c of shapelib 1.5.0 and older releases. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impact via control over malloc.

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AZL-37034 CVE-2022-0699 affecting package shapelib for versions less than 1.5.0-3

A double-free condition exists in contrib/shpsort.c of shapelib 1.5.0 and older releases. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impact via control over malloc...

CVE-2022-0699

A double-free condition exists in contrib/shpsort.c of shapelib 1.5.0 and older releases. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impact via control over malloc...

AZL-28599 CVE-2022-0699 affecting package shapelib for versions less than 1.5.0-3

A double-free condition exists in contrib/shpsort.c of shapelib 1.5.0 and older releases. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impact via control over malloc...

Shapelib resource management error vulnerability

Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shape files. A security vulnerability exists in Shapelib, which can be exploited via contrib/shpsort.c to force the release of Shapelib's memory to trigger a denial of service and potentially run code...