{"id":"MGASA-2017-0392","summary":"Updated procmail packages fix security vulnerability","details":"A flaw was found in the loadbuf function in formisc.c. When the buffer\nis too small, the function tries to resize it, but only by Bsize (=128)\nbytes. This is not necessarily enough and could cause denial of service.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T04:27:15.272689Z","published":"2017-10-30T19:23:17Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0392.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21885"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DKF7SN6RKVFTADUVEPX2ZA5USDIVPKEA/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876511"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"procmail","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/procmail?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.22-23.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0392.json"}},{"package":{"name":"procmail","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/procmail?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.22-24.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0392.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}