Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0308 (slock)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0308: Updated slock packages fix security vulnerability 
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Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:38:53 +0200
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MGASA-2016-0308 - Updated slock packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Sep 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0308.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6866

Description:
The slock utility is susceptible to crash when verifying a password for
a user without a valid shadow hash entry (CVE-2016-6866).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19218
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6866

SRPMS:
- 5/core/slock-1.1-5.1.mga5