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Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0154 Moderate: libsolv Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2021-0247 security notice concerning libsolv package revision resolving denial of service security flaw. Consult for further information.
It was discovered that libsolv incorrectly handled certain malformed input

Summary

It was discovered that libsolv incorrectly handled certain malformed input. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, applications that rely on libsolv could be made to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-2053[2-4]).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24563

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3916-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-2052

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-2053

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-2054

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update severity moderate malformed input mageia libsolv

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/libsolv-0.6.30-1.1.mga6

Publication date: 07 May 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0154.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-2052, CVE-2018-2053, CVE-2018-2054

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update severity moderate malformed input mageia libsolv

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