Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0174 (sharutils)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0174: Updated sharutils packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:13:58 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0174 - Updated sharutils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0174.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6

Description:
It was discovered that unshar from sharutils contained a heap buffer
overflow flaw that could result in a Denial of Service attack when
processing a shar archive if the archive contains overlong lines.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22739
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548018
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...

SRPMS:
- 6/core/sharutils-4.15.2-2.1.mga6