[Debichem-devel] Bug#1059257: gemmi: CVE-2023-49287

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: gemmi
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gemmi.

CVE-2023-49287[0]:
| TinyDir is a lightweight C directory and file reader. Buffer
| overflows in the `tinydir_file_open()` function. This vulnerability
| has been patched in version 1.2.6.

https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/security/advisories/GHSA-jf5r-wgf4-qhxf
https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/commit/8124807260735a837226fa151493536591f6715d
https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2023-04-tinydir.txt

gemmi embeds a copy of tinydir, if it's not used to
open files from potentially untrusted paths, feel free to downgrade.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-49287
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49287

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.