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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-154

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-154
Posted Aug 8, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-154 - Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.

tags | advisory, local
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-2524
SHA-256 | c4bd4fe482bbb7c5ccb04b70fea9089926839667f7031e53dc607a03df3e976e

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-154

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:154
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : readline
Date : August 6, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability:

Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely
handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform
symbolic link attacks (CVE-2014-2524).

Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi
input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2524
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
e0ba1cb317b53753b13983780d48b7bd mbs1/x86_64/lib64readline6-6.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
eabe4398528494c5e3c071e8a5270e71 mbs1/x86_64/lib64readline-devel-6.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
0b5f1cffb7f32ad4135562136a8ae9d1 mbs1/x86_64/readline-doc-6.2-5.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
63dab1fc10878cf7b3aa57a2e04d6a95 mbs1/SRPMS/readline-6.2-5.1.mbs1.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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