Advisories » MGASA-2018-0003

Updated ldns packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 01 Jan 2018
Modification date: 01 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-1000231 , CVE-2017-1000232

Description

Stephan Zeisberg discovered that ldns incorrectly handled memory when
processing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ldns to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code (CVE-2017-1000231, CVE-2017-1000232).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22066
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3491-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000231
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000232

SRPMS

5/core

• ldns-1.6.17-5.1.mga5

6/core

• ldns-1.6.17-8.1.mga6