Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0367 (tnef)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0367: Updated tnef packages fix security vulnerability 
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Fri, 6 Dec 2019 15:16:51 +0100
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MGASA-2019-0367 - Updated tnef packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0367.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-18849

Description:
Updated tnef package fixes security vulnerability:

In tnef, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's 
.ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted
winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based
buffer over-read involving strdup (CVE-2019-18849).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25785
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2019/dla-2005
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/tnef-1.4.18-1.mga7