Advisories » MGASA-2018-0174

Updated sharutils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
Modification date: 19 Mar 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6

Description

It was discovered that unshar from sharutils contained a heap buffer
overflow flaw that could result in a Denial of Service attack when
processing a shar archive if the archive contains overlong lines.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22739
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548018
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LSTLNKMVXDRS7L32VJ5TIEL4Q4PVSGNE/

SRPMS

6/core

• sharutils-4.15.2-2.1.mga6