Advisories » MGASA-2015-0434

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Nov 2015
Modification date: 05 Nov 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-5218

Description

A buffer overflow in the colcrt command in util-linux can lead to a crash
when given a large input (CVE-2015-5218).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17087
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5218

SRPMS

5/core

• util-linux-2.25.2-3.2.mga5