Advisories ยป MGASA-2014-0351

Updated busybox packages fix CVE-2014-4607

Publication date: 25 Aug 2014
Modification date: 25 Aug 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4607

Description

Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability:

An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial
of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO
decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker (CVE-2014-4607).

Busybox bundles part of the liblzo code, containing the lzo1x_decompress_safe
function, which is affected by this issue.
                

References

SRPMS

3/core

4/core