Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0155 (nut)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0155: nut-2.6.0-2.1.mga1 (1/core),
 nut-2.6.1-1.1.mga2 (2/core) 
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Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:39:03 +0200
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MGASA-2012-0155
Date: 	July 10th, 2012
Affected releases: 	1, 2


Description:
Updated nut packages fix security vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd
in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power
outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters
(CVE-2012-2944).


Updated Packages:
Mageia 1:
nut-2.6.0-2.1.mga1
nut-cgi-2.6.0-2.1.mga1
nut-devel-2.6.0-2.1.mga1
nut-drivers-hal-2.6.0-2.1.mga1
nut-server-2.6.0-2.1.mga1
lib(64)upsclient1-2.6.0-2.1.mga1

Mageia 2:
nut-2.6.1-1.1.mga2
nut-cgi-2.6.1-1.1.mga2
nut-devel-2.6.1-1.1.mga2
nut-drivers-hal-2.6.1-1.1.mga2
nut-server-2.6.1-1.1.mga2
lib(64)upsclient1-2.6.1-1.1.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2944
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/?d...
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6282
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...