Advisories » MGASA-2018-0251

Updated librelp packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 May 2018
Modification date: 19 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2018-1000140

Description

librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow
vulnerability in the checking of x509 certificates from a peer that can
result in Remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable a
remote attacker that can connect to rsyslog and trigger a stack buffer
overflow by sending a specially crafted x509 certificate
(CVE-2018-1000140).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22822
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/23/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560084
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000140

SRPMS

5/core

• librelp-1.2.7-3.1.mga5

6/core

• librelp-1.2.13-1.1.mga6