Advisories ยป MGASA-2014-0361

Updated x11vnc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Aug 2014
Modification date: 28 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 libvncserver library is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which
is a part of liblzo containing the vulnerable code.  The remmina package
is built with a bundled copy of libvncserver.

The updated packages should have been shipped along with MGASA-2014-0356
                

References

SRPMS

4/core

3/core