Advisories » MGASA-2015-0159

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788

Publication date: 18 Apr 2015
Modification date: 18 Apr 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-2788

Description

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix security vulnerability:

Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD::FireBird in
certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf() function to write
to a fixed-size memory buffer (CVE-2015-2788).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15587
• https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3219
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2788

SRPMS

4/core

• perl-DBD-Firebird-1.150.0-2.1.mga4