PT-2015-7884 · Gtk2 · Perl-Gtk2

Published 2015-02-11 · Updated 2015-02-11

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions perl-Gtk2 versions prior to 1.2495

Description The issue is related to incorrect memory management in the Gtk2::Gdk::Display::list devices function in perl-Gtk2, where memory is freed that gtk+ still holds onto and might access later.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2495, update the perl-Gtk2 package to version 1.2495 to fix this issue and other bugs.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2015-0059

Affected Products

Perl-Gtk2

References · 5

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0059.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0059 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/XAOC/Gtk2-1.2495/NEWS · Note
• https://mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg07793.html · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173 · Note