Advisories » MGASA-2017-0307

Updated libice packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Aug 2017
Modification date: 25 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-2626

Description

libICE depends on arc4random() to generate the session cookies, thereby
using a weak mechanism to generate entropy (CVE-2017-2626).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20378
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2626

SRPMS

5/core

• libice-1.0.9-3.1.mga5