Bug 19784

Summary:	gnuchess new security issue CVE-2015-8972
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Sec team <security>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, marja11, panasum, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	5	Keywords:	validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/706844/
Whiteboard:	MGA5-64-OK advisory
Source RPM:	gnuchess-6.1.1-3.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2016-11-14 21:56:27 CET

A CVE has been assigned for a security issue fixed upstream in gnuchess:
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/12

A freeze push request for gnuchess 6.2.4 has been sent.

Upstream patch checked into Mageia 5 SVN.

David Walser 2016-11-14 21:56:37 CET

CC: (none) => rverschelde

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-15 12:05:08 CET

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for this package.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 David Walser 2016-11-15 21:35:07 CET

Patched package uploaded for Mageia 5.

Advisory:
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Updated gnuchess package fixes security vulnerability:

gnuchess before 6.2.4 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow related to user
move input, where 160 characters of input can crash gnuchess (CVE-2015-8972).

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8972
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/12
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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gnuchess-6.1.1-3.1.mga5

from gnuchess-6.1.1-3.1.mga5.src.rpm

CC: rverschelde => (none)
Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs

Comment 3 Pana Sum 2016-11-17 19:42:34 CET

Tested on a 64 bits Mageia 5 installation, real hardware.

Using xboard front-end played a game gnuchess vs. gnuchess, before and after the update. The game finished with both versions.

CC: (none) => panasum

Dave Hodgins 2016-11-17 20:33:14 CET

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5-64-OK advisory
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins, sysadmin-bugs

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2016-11-18 00:41:57 CET

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0390.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

David Walser 2016-11-18 17:30:00 CET

URL: (none) => http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/706844/