Advisories » MGASA-2021-0411

Updated gpsd packages fix security vulnerability and other bugs

Publication date: 25 Aug 2021
Modification date: 25 Aug 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8

Description

It was discovered that GPSd incorrectly handled certain leap second
events which would result in the time jumping back 1024 weeks on
2021-10-31. 

This update provides upstream version 3.23 that has this and several
other upstream issues fixed. It also fixes issues that prevents it
to start properly (mga#28711).

The packages: foxtrotgps, marble, merkaartor, navit, plasma-workspace,
viking have been rebuild for the updated gpsd libs. 
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29322
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28711

SRPMS

8/core

• gpsd-3.23-1.mga8
• foxtrotgps-1.2.2-4.1.mga8
• marble-20.12.0-1.1.mga8
• merkaartor-0.18.4-9.1.mga8
• navit-0.5.4-3.1.mga8
• plasma-workspace-5.20.4-5.1.mga8
• viking-1.8-5.1.mga8