Advisories » MGASA-2018-0295

Updated file packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 Jun 2018
Modification date: 24 Jun 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2018-10360

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

The do_core_note function in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.33 allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and
 application crash) via a crafted ELF file. (CVE-2018-10360)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23183
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3686-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10360

SRPMS

5/core

• file-5.19-10.2.mga5

6/core

• file-5.25-5.1.mga6