Advisories ยป MGASA-2015-0159

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

Publication 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

SRPMS

4/core