-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8868 2009-08-22 00:05:48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.020 Release : 1.fc11 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Compress-Raw-Bzip2/ Summary : Low-Level Interface to bzip2 compression library Description : This module provides a Perl interface to the bzip2 compression library. It is used by IO::Compress::Bzip2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw- Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Aug 20 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmasl...@redhat.com> - 2.020-1 - 518278 CVE-2009-1884, update to the latest release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #518278 - CVE-2009-1884 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function - DoS (crash) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518278 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce