Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0354 (screen)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0354: Updated screen packages fix CVE-2015-6806 
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Tue, 8 Sep 2015 19:56:45 +0200
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MGASA-2015-0354 - Updated screen packages fix CVE-2015-6806

Publication date: 08 Sep 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0354.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4, 5
CVE: CVE-2015-6806

Description:
Updated screen package fixes security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was found in screen causing a stack overflow which results in
crashing the screen server process, resulting in denial of service
(CVE-2015-6806).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16699
- https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3352
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6806

SRPMS:
- 4/core/screen-4.0.3-13.1.mga4
- 5/core/screen-4.2.1-3.1.mga5