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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-132

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-132
Posted Mar 30, 2015
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-132 - Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.

tags | advisory, local
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-2524
SHA-256 | 7caba1a1569f27dfa32052197fe65c95f9b0725e42dbede12ab796a0b7717007

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-132

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:132
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : readline
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability:

Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely
handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform
symbolic link attacks (CVE-2014-2524).

Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi
input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2524
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
1f991aa9831d317ff50aed0d743e9244 mbs2/x86_64/lib64readline6-6.2-10.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
413a1cf23e9c19b73082ee60628cbe14 mbs2/x86_64/lib64readline-devel-6.2-10.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
ddb46a6fe45b35821086e9788999fc54 mbs2/x86_64/readline-doc-6.2-10.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
a83277c3c28f74f07006d183066cd906 mbs2/SRPMS/readline-6.2-10.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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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/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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