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Fedora 31: libmodsecurity Security Update - DoS Issue Fixed

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Libmodsecurity enhances security for Ubuntu 20.04 by addressing a significant vulnerability, providing better control over network requests.
Fix DoS vulnerability (CVE-2019-19886, RHBZ #1801720 / #1801719)

Summary

Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project.

The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors

taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing.

In general, it provides the capability to load/interpret rules written

in the ModSecurity SecRules format and apply them to HTTP content provided

by your application via Connectors.

Fix DoS vulnerability (CVE-2019-19886, RHBZ #1801720 / #1801719)

* Sat Mar 21 2020 Othman Madjoudj - 3.0.3-6

- Fix DoS vulnerability (CVE-2019-19886, RHBZ #1801720 / #1801719)

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.0.3-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1801719 - CVE-2019-19886 libmodsecurity: denial of service in Transaction::addRequestHeader in transaction.cc [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801719

[ 2 ] Bug #1801720 - CVE-2019-19886 libmodsecurity: denial of service in Transaction::addRequestHeader in transaction.cc [epel-7]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801720

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 3.0.3
Release: 6.fc31
Summary: A library that loads/interprets rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules

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