Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0084 (xdelta3)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0084: Updated xdelta3 packages fix CVE-2014-9765 
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MGASA-2016-0084 - Updated xdelta3 packages fix CVE-2014-9765

Publication date: 02 Mar 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0084.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2014-9765

Description:
Updated xdelta3 package fixes security vulnerability:

Stepan Golosunov discovered that xdelta3, a diff utility which works with
binary files, is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability within the
main_get_appheader function, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code (CVE-2014-9765).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17713
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3484
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9765

SRPMS:
- 5/core/xdelta3-3.0.0-5.1.mga5