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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017-1

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017-1
Posted Mar 30, 2015
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017 - Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit this flaw, an attacker needs to be able to find a way to provoke the program into trying to make a buffer chunk larger than what will fit into a single size_t or off_t.

tags | advisory, overflow
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-6272
SHA-256 | 37d784031ae48e29994057c675fed2574429ffa8db1c8f64699b2756dfbdeb52

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017-1

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:017-1
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : libevent
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:

Updated libevent packages fix security vulnerability:

Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain
applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves
applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open
to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit
this flaw, an attacker needs to be able to find a way to provoke the
program into trying to make a buffer chunk larger than what will fit
into a single size_t or off_t (CVE-2014-6272).

Update:

Packages for Mandriva Business Server 2 are now being provided.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6272
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0009.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
c51132b310fb74179927370b6b82ec0c mbs2/x86_64/lib64event5-2.0.21-6.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
d14d946ff417ba2f4564473b2c0d7094 mbs2/x86_64/lib64event-devel-2.0.21-6.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
ed0c011d6883d2d3aef40acab4282264 mbs2/SRPMS/libevent-2.0.21-6.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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