Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-206 - A denial of service issue was discovered in ctags 5.8. A remote attacker could cause excessive CPU usage and disk space consumption via a crafted JavaScript file by triggering an infinite loop.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:206
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : ctags
Date : October 24, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated ctags package fixes security vulnerability:
A denial of service issue was discovered in ctags 5.8. A remote
attacker could cause excessive CPU usage and disk space consumption
via a crafted JavaScript file by triggering an infinite loop
(CVE-2014-7204).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7204
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
94f3a92b6a0686cd8d76f367ee59db91 mbs1/x86_64/ctags-5.8-4.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
33e4dc7d32d3d75a3084530efad438f5 mbs1/SRPMS/ctags-5.8-4.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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