Advisories » MGASA-2013-0318

Updated dropbear packages fix CVE-2013-4421

Publication date: 25 Oct 2013
Modification date: 25 Oct 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4421 , CVE-2013-4434

Description

Updated dropbear package fixes security vulnerability:

Possible memory exhaustion denial of service due to the size of
decompressed payloads in dropbear before 2013.59 (CVE-2013-4421).

Inconsistent delays in authorization failures could be used to
disclose the existence of valid user accounts in dropbear before
2013.59 (CVE-2013-4434).
                

References

• https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/11/4
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11442
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4421
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4434

SRPMS

3/core

• dropbear-2013.59-1.mga3

2/core

• dropbear-2013.59-1.mga2