Advisories » MGASA-2014-0358

Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Aug 2014
Modification date: 26 Aug 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4607

Description

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).

The grub2 package is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which is a
part of liblzo containing the vulnerable code.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13957
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0290.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4607

SRPMS

3/core

• grub2-2.00-46.3.mga3

4/core

• grub2-2.00-59.1.mga4