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Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0225 (xlockmore)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0225: Updated xlockmore package fixes security vulnerability
Date:  Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:31:59 +0200
Message-ID:  <20130721093159.861E341D98@valstar.mageia.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

MGASA-2013-0225 - Updated xlockmore package fixes security vulnerability Publication date: 21 Jul 2013 URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0225.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 3 CVE: CVE-2013-4143 Description: xlockmore before 5.43 contains a security flaw related to potential NULL pointer dereferences when authenticating via glibc 2.17+'s crypt() function. Under certain conditions the NULL pointers can trigger a crash in xlockmore effectively bypassing the screen lock (CVE-2013-4143). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10799 - http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/8 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4143 SRPMS: - 3/core/xlockmore-5.41-2.1.mga3


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