Advisories » MGASA-2013-0366

Updated pixman package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Dec 2013
Modification date: 06 Dec 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2013-6425

Description

Bryan Quigley discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash (CVE-2013-6425).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11874
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/04/8
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2047-1/
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1197921
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6425

SRPMS

3/core

• pixman-0.28.2-2.1.mga3