Advisories » MGASA-2014-0190

Updated libmms packages fix CVE-2014-2892

Publication date: 23 Apr 2014
Modification date: 23 Apr 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-2892

Description

Updated libmms packages fix security vulnerability:

The libmms library before 0.6.4 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in
get_answer() in src/mmsh.c.  It may be triggered via an overly long line
of a MMSH (MMS over HTTP) server response, effectively overflowing the
buffer which has a static size (CVE-2014-2892).
                

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/18/14
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13235
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2892

SRPMS

4/core

• libmms-0.6.2-4.1.mga4

3/core

• libmms-0.6.2-3.1.mga3