Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0400 (bzip2)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0400: Updated bzip2 packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:42:28 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0400 - Updated bzip2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Nov 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0400.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-3189

Description:
A use-after-free flaw was found in bzip2recover, leading to a null
pointer dereference, or a write to a closed file descriptor. An attacker
could use this flaw by sending a specially crafted bzip2 file to recover
and force the program to crash (CVE-2016-3189).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18742
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/20/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319648
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3189

SRPMS:
- 5/core/bzip2-1.0.6-7.1.mga5