MGASA-2018-0174

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    MGASA-2018-0174

    Published: 19 Mar 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated sharutils packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that unshar from sharutils contained a heap buffer overflow flaw that could result in a Denial of Service attack when processing a shar archive if the archive contains overlong lines.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0174.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22739, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548018, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/LSTLNKMVXDRS7L32VJ5TIEL4Q4PVSGNE/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sharutils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/sharutils?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.15.2-2.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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