Advisories ยป MGASA-2018-0231

Updated afflib packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2018
Modification date: 12 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2018-8050

Description

A flaw was found in AFFLIB (aka AFFLIBv3) through 3.7.16. The af_get_page()
function in lib/afflib_pages.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (segmentation fault) via a corrupt AFF image that triggers an
unexpected pagesize value (CVE-2018-8050).
                

References

SRPMS

6/core

5/core