Advisories » MGASA-2019-0150

Updated gpsd packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Apr 2019
Modification date: 10 Apr 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-17937

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in gpsd versions 2.90 to 3.17.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote code
execution, data exfiltration, or denial-of service via device crash
(CVE-2018-17937).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24506
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NPBGYNXS2TXDAYUNJV3HHJKVOBHP45B4/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17937

SRPMS

6/core

• gpsd-3.16-2.2.mga6