Advisories ยป 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

SRPMS

3/core

4/core