Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in Opal. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3413

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.0
Mandriva Linux 2007.1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
337dc6f6f00747d93d833d462b388001 2007.0/i586/libopal2-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
72b7fa693dcfa0bd9eb947c9efc48089 2007.0/i586/libopal2-devel-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
ee93a37f7426e9564f93ea526a60f3f6 2007.0/SRPMS/opal-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
c4502c7d03ddecd7a2fa0aa788888594 2007.0/x86_64/lib64opal2-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
3acdb9831b86988832032c61de7178b3 2007.0/x86_64/lib64opal2-devel-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
ee93a37f7426e9564f93ea526a60f3f6 2007.0/SRPMS/opal-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
d544b489474818208d00d1a2abcf6821 2007.1/i586/libopal2-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
689aef82cbaf8bf1a0dbea2e688a44ea 2007.1/i586/libopal2-devel-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
72fef0012c30c0771b97bc0aadcd47fe 2007.1/SRPMS/opal-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
cdaf928352d65caa57c00068467f74e8 2007.1/x86_64/lib64opal2-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
2b6695ed410c7ec3021b7e194d603fca 2007.1/x86_64/lib64opal2-devel-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
72fef0012c30c0771b97bc0aadcd47fe 2007.1/SRPMS/opal-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3712
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2007-11/msg00002.php

ChangeLog

2007-11-05 : Initial release

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