Bug#1022557: shapelib: CVE-2022-0699

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: shapelib
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for shapelib.

CVE-2022-0699[0]:
| 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.

https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib/issues/39
https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib/commit/c75b9281a5b9452d92e1682bdfe6019a13ed819f

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-2022-0699
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0699

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.