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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017
Posted Jan 8, 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 | bce77a4196de4ea6bb6b6218815a3818073546b6ac3237c482ea8db9d5f9801c

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-017

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:017
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : libevent
Date : January 8, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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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).
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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 1/X86_64:
88a06ffb6e4f313caa5589c2c726f6f9 mbs1/x86_64/lib64event5-2.0.17-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
171dd11f991a44d80ac4d4e218d41d9e mbs1/x86_64/lib64event-devel-2.0.17-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
5d7bcd499ddf00b4d8513caedfe99b25 mbs1/SRPMS/libevent-2.0.17-2.1.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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