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Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0251 (libimobiledevice)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0251: Updated libimobiledevice packages fix CVE-2013-2142
Date:  Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:47:05 +0200
Message-ID:  <20130817084705.DE69D486BB@valstar.mageia.org>
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MGASA-2013-0251 - Updated libimobiledevice packages fix CVE-2013-2142 Publication date: 17 Aug 2013 URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0251.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 3 CVE: CVE-2013-2142 Description: Updated libimobiledevice packages fix security vulnerability: Paul Collins discovered that libimobiledevice incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and access device keys. In the default Ubuntu installation, this issue should be mitigated by the Yama link restrictions (CVE-2013-2142). References: - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1927-1 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11010 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2142 SRPMS: - 3/core/libimobiledevice-1.1.4-4.1.mga3


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