DSA-4174-1 corosync -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4174-1 corosync -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

corosync

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 895653.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1084.

More information:

The Citrix Security Response Team discovered that corosync, a cluster engine implementation, allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial-of-service by application crash.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-3+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your corosync packages.

For the detailed security status of corosync please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/corosync