Advisories ยป MGASA-2017-0209

Updated tnef packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 22 Jul 2017
Modification date: 21 Jul 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-8911

Description

It was discovered that tnef did not correctly validate its input. An
attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a malicious
attachment, which would result in a denial-of-service by application
crash (CVE-2017-8911).
                

References

SRPMS

5/core