Mageia 6 MGASA-2018-0456 Critical: Hylafax+ Input Sanitization Flaw
mageia
November 17, 2018
Luis Merino, Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that missing input sanitising in the Hylafax fax software could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code via...
Summary
Luis Merino, Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that missing
input sanitising in the Hylafax fax software could potentially result in
the execution of arbitrary code via a malformed fax message
(CVE-2018-17141).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23661
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00229.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17141
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/hylafax+-5.6.1-1.mga6
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Publication date: 17 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0456.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-17141
Topics Covered
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