Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0159 (perl-DBD-Firebird)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0159: Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788 
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Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:21:58 +0200
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MGASA-2015-0159 - Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788

Publication date: 18 Apr 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0159.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2015-2788

Description:
Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix security vulnerability:

Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD::FireBird in
certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf() function to write
to a fixed-size memory buffer (CVE-2015-2788).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15587
- https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3219
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2788

SRPMS:
- 4/core/perl-DBD-Firebird-1.150.0-2.1.mga4