[ MDVSA-2015:017 ] libevent

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:017
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/

Package : libevent
Date : January 8, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0

Problem Description:

Updated libevent packages fix security vulnerability:

Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain
applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves
applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open
to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit
this flaw, an attacker needs to be able to find a way to provoke the
program into trying to make a buffer chunk larger than what will fit
into a single size_t or off_t (CVE-2014-6272).

References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6272
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0009.html

Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
88a06ffb6e4f313caa5589c2c726f6f9 mbs1/x86_64/lib64event5-2.0.17-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
171dd11f991a44d80ac4d4e218d41d9e mbs1/x86_64/lib64event-devel-2.0.17-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
5d7bcd499ddf00b4d8513caedfe99b25 mbs1/SRPMS/libevent-2.0.17-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm

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gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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