MGASA-2018-0332

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    MGASA-2018-0332

    Published: 10 Aug 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated blender packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated blender package fixes security vulnerabilities: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in various parsers of Blender. Malformed .blend model files and malformed multimedia files (AVI, BMP, HDR, CIN, IRIS, PNG, TIFF) may result in the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2017-2899, CVE-2017-2900, CVE-2017-2901, CVE-2017-2902, CVE-2017-2903, CVE-2017-2904, CVE-2017-2905, CVE-2017-2906, CVE-2017-2907, CVE-2017-2908, CVE-2017-2918, CVE-2017-12081, CVE-2017-12082, CVE-2017-12086, CVE-2017-12099, CVE-2017-12100, CVE-2017-12101, CVE-2017-12102, CVE-2017-12103, CVE-2017-12104, CVE-2017-12105). These issues are fixed by updating to the latest upstream 2.79b release, which brings many improvements, bug fixes and new features. See the referenced changelog for details. Also, the yafaray package has been updated to the latest version, 3.3.0, to make it work with the new Blender addons path.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0332.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23332, https://www.blender.org/features/2-79/, http://www.yafaray.org/node/817, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4248

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: blender

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/blender?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.79b-1.1.mga6

    Affected versions

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