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Debian 8: DLA-1499-2 Moderate: Discounted DoS Vulnerabilities

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 8, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance your subscription plan to address multiple stack-oriented buffer underflows and service disruption vulnerabilities in Debian 9.
Several heap-based buffer over-reads were found in discount, an implementation of the Markdown markup language in C, that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via ...
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security advisory denial of service buffer overflow debian heap-based issue markdown implementation

Summary

We recommend that you upgrade your discount packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Package: discount
Version: 2.1.7-1+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-11468 CVE-2018-11503 CVE-2018-11504
Debian Bug: 901912

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow debian heap-based issue markdown implementation

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