Advisories » MGASA-2014-0360

Updated kdenetwork4 packages fixes security vulnerability in krfb

Publication date: 27 Aug 2014
Modification date: 27 Aug 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
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 libvncserver library is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which
is a part of liblzo containing the vulnerable code.  The krfb package is
built with a bundled copy of libvncserver.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13933
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0290.html
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140803-1.txt
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4607

SRPMS

3/core

• kdenetwork4-4.10.5-1.2.mga3