Bug 1346278 (CVE-2016-5434) - CVE-2016-5434 pacman: denial of service flaw in libalpm
Summary: CVE-2016-5434 pacman: denial of service flaw in libalpm
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-5434
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1346279
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-14 12:36 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:54:54 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-06-14 12:36:12 UTC 
An out-of-bounds read flaw resulting in an infinite loop was found in pacman's (the Arch package manager) signature parser.

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/526
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-06-14 12:36:27 UTC 
Created pacman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1346279]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:54:54 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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