Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.831739
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandriva Update for gc MDVSA-2012:158 (gc)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'gc'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'gc' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A security issue was identified and fixed in gc: Multiple integer overflows in the (1) GC_generic_malloc and (2) calloc functions in malloc.c, and the (3) GC_generic_malloc_ignore_off_page function in mallocx.c in Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC (libgc) before 7.2 make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected (CVE-2012-2673). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. Affected Software/OS: gc on Mandriva Linux 2011.0, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2673 54227 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54227 FEDORA-2012-9556 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082926.html FEDORA-2012-9637 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082988.html MDVSA-2012:158 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:158 RHSA-2013:1500 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1500.html RHSA-2014:0149 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0149.html RHSA-2014:0150 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0150.html USN-1546-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1546-1 [oss-security] 20120605 memory allocator upstream patches http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1 [oss-security] 20120607 Re: memory allocator upstream patches http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13 http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/ https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/ChangeLog https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/6a93f8e5bcad22137f41b6c60a1c7384baaec2b3 https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/83231d0ab5ed60015797c3d1ad9056295ac3b2bb https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/be9df82919960214ee4b9d3313523bff44fd99e1 https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/e10c1eb9908c2774c16b3148b30d2f3823d66a9a
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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