Advisories » MGASA-2015-0354

Updated screen packages fix CVE-2015-6806

Publication date: 08 Sep 2015
Modification date: 08 Sep 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4 , 5
CVE: CVE-2015-6806

Description

Updated screen package fixes security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was found in screen causing a stack overflow which results in
crashing the screen server process, resulting in denial of service
(CVE-2015-6806).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16699
• https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3352
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6806

SRPMS

5/core

• screen-4.2.1-3.1.mga5

4/core

• screen-4.0.3-13.1.mga4