Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0225 (xlockmore)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0225: Updated xlockmore package fixes
 security vulnerability 
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Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:31:59 +0200
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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