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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2009:207 ] perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A vulnerability has been found and corrected in perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391 (CVE-2009-1884). This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2009:207
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
 Date    : August 19, 2009
 Affected: 2009.1, Enterprise Server 5.0
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 A vulnerability has been found and corrected in perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip:
 
 Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in
 the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows
 context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application
 hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers
 a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391 (CVE-2009-1884).
 
 This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1884
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1:
 3ef77fd50a466b9c22d8e832662b167e  2009.1/i586/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-2.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 
 01cc73eb2e4bc0567372c8158b4fce33  2009.1/SRPMS/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-2.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2009.1/X86_64:
 9f066b4968d03c1fb2400f016716c56e  2009.1/x86_64/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-2.1mdv2009.1.x86_64.rpm 
 01cc73eb2e4bc0567372c8158b4fce33  2009.1/SRPMS/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-2.1mdv2009.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
 8459a1793dcf3454572204bd2e676365  mes5/i586/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-1.1mdvmes5.i586.rpm 
 96e7cf7c48581d0c1df0eb2fd860b80a  mes5/SRPMS/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-1.1mdvmes5.src.rpm

 Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
 b15d45c9bffc74557a52b3725c4bd890  mes5/x86_64/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-1.1mdvmes5.x86_64.rpm 
 96e7cf7c48581d0c1df0eb2fd860b80a  mes5/SRPMS/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.015-1.1mdvmes5.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

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

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

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