Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0415 (ctags)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0415: Updated ctags package fixes security vulnerability 
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Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:28:15 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0415 - Updated ctags package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Oct 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-7204

Description:
A denial of service issue was discovered in ctags 5.8. A remote attacker could
cause excessive CPU usage and disk space consumption via a crafted JavaScript
file by triggering an infinite loop (CVE-2014-7204).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14277
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7204

SRPMS:
- 4/core/ctags-5.8-7.1.mga4
- 3/core/ctags-5.8-6.1.mga3