Advisories » MGASA-2015-0055

Updated polarssl packages fix CVE-2015-1182

Publication date: 09 Feb 2015
Modification date: 09 Feb 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-1182

Description

Updated polarssl packages fix security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was discovered in PolarSSL in its certificate parser. A remote
attacker could exploit this flaw using specially crafted certificates to mount
a denial of service against an application linked against the library
(application crash), or potentially, to execute arbitrary code
(CVE-2015-1182).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15137
• https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2014-04
• https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3136
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1182

SRPMS

4/core

• polarssl-1.3.9-1.1.mga4