Advisories » 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14001
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13944
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0290.html
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0356.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4607

SRPMS

4/core

• x11vnc-0.9.13-4.1.mga4

3/core

• x11vnc-0.9.13-3.1.mga3