Advisories » 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13945
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0290.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4607

SRPMS

3/core

• busybox-1.20.2-2.2.mga3

4/core

• busybox-1.21.1-3.1.mga4