[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libzip (security update)

David Walser luigiwalser at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 28 18:49:32 CEST 2012


David Walser <luigiwalser at ...> writes:
> New vulnerabilities CVE-2012-1162 (heap overflow) and CVE-2012-1163 (integer
> overflow) in libzip were recently announced.
> 
> libzip 0.10.1 has been released to fix these.  I have updated it in SVN and
> confirmed it builds on current Cauldron.  I mentioned this earlier and Anne
> submitted it to the build system, and it built, but one of the make check
> tests failed.  I can't reproduce this, even on a stripped-down VM with no
> extra -devel packages installed, so I'm thinking it was a transient issue on
> the build system (as I've seen this happen before).  Can we please try
> submitting it again?
> 
> References:
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5063
> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/710
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802564
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803028

boklm tried submitting this again (thanks for trying), and it failed on
"fread.test" again.  As I said, I can't reproduce the problem, and I welcome any
help in solving it.



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