Advisories » MGASA-2014-0073

Updated cxxtols package fixes security issue

Publication date: 16 Feb 2014
Modification date: 16 Feb 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2013-7298

Description

A flaw in cxxtools version 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (infinite recursion and crash) via an HTTP query that contains
%% (double percent) characters (CVE-2013-7298).

This update fixes the vulnerability.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12691
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7298

SRPMS

4/core

• cxxtools-2.2-2.1.mga4