Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0358 (grub2)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0358: Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability 
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Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:05:18 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0358 - Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Aug 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0358.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4607

Description:
An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a
denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using
performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker
(CVE-2014-4607).

The grub2 package is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which is a
part of liblzo containing the vulnerable code.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13957
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0290.html
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4607

SRPMS:
- 4/core/grub2-2.00-59.1.mga4
- 3/core/grub2-2.00-46.3.mga3