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Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:026 : bzip2

 

Updated bzip2 packages fix bzgrep vulnerabilities

January 30th, 2006

 

A bug was found in the way that bzgrep processed file names.If a user could be tricked into running bzgrep on a file with a special file name, it would be possible to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running bzgrep. As well, the bzip2 package provided with Mandriva Linux 2006 did not the patch applied to correct CVE-2005-0953 which was previously fixed by MDKSA-2005:091; those packages are now properly patched. The updated packages have been patched to correct these problems.

 

 

The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are:

  • 10.1
  • CS2.1
  • CS3.0
  • MNF2.0
  • 10.2
  • 2006.0

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026

 

Other references:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0758

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0953

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 0.15 2005/11/24 16:53:12 aru Exp aru $)

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