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Scientific Linux: 2007-10-08 Moderate pwlib Crash Issue Advisory

Calendar Oct 08, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory memory management pwlib crash issue Scientific Linux
Moderate: pwlib security update 
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:23:15 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for pwlib on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: pwlib security update
Issue date:	2007-10-08
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4897

In Scientific Linux 5, the Ekiga teleconferencing application uses
PWLib.

A memory management flaw was discovered in PWLib. An attacker could use this
flaw to crash an application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with pwlib
(CVE-2007-4897).

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
pwlib-devel-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pwlib-devel-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson