Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Netpbm. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0460

Affected Products

Mandriva Corporate 3.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Corporate 3.0:
a1229db35f2dd0edb45ecf42844fbdd5 corporate/3.0/i586/libnetpbm9-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
b69c7957841b97e6efe2246abc0445b5 corporate/3.0/i586/libnetpbm9-devel-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
74e8149929edd4a38bc336a6e6ad815e corporate/3.0/i586/libnetpbm9-static-devel-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
4b24aeaba17c33acc1984d972951e6e0 corporate/3.0/i586/netpbm-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
09a57b241725ddc94de7aa784cbdcf23 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/netpbm-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
5826a02ad4a790a7f0267babd6d07c7b corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64netpbm9-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
5a878ca5fdfac52fa1982349f067184a corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64netpbm9-devel-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
ee63faa77fbc7f5cf5fdad8b50211297 corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64netpbm9-static-devel-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
26953a92ce395301140d6eaab20f36c9 corporate/3.0/x86_64/netpbm-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
09a57b241725ddc94de7aa784cbdcf23 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/netpbm-9.24-8.4.C30mdk.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0461
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-02/msg00010.php

ChangeLog

2008-02-08 : Initial release

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