Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0318 (libgxps)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0318: Updated libgxps packages fix security vulnerability 
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Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:48:39 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0318 - Updated libgxps packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Aug 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0318.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5, 6
CVE: CVE-2017-11590

Description:
There is a NULL pointer dereference in the caseless_hash function in
gxps-archive.c in libgxps 0.2.5. A crafted input will lead to a denial
of service attack (CVE-2017-11590).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21526
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11590

SRPMS:
- 6/core/libgxps-0.2.5-1.1.mga6
- 5/core/libgxps-0.2.5-1.1.mga5