Advisories » MGASA-2016-0302

Updated cracklib packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Sep 2016
Modification date: 08 Sep 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6318

Description

It was discovered that there was a stack-based buffer overflow when
parsing large GECOS fields in cracklib (CVE-2016-6318).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19236
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/697921/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6318

SRPMS

5/core

• cracklib-2.9.2-2.2.mga5