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Fedora 33 FEDORA-2020-f92d372cf1 Critical: Libproxy Stack Exhaustion Issue

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The patch addressing CVE-2020-25219 for libproxy has been applied in Fedora 33. Ensure your system remains protected with this critical update.
Fix CVE-2020-25219

Summary

libproxy offers the following features:

* extremely small core footprint (< 35K)

* no external dependencies within libproxy core

(libproxy plugins may have dependencies)

* only 3 functions in the stable external API

* dynamic adjustment to changing network topology

* a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios

* a sublime sense of joy and accomplishment

Fix CVE-2020-25219

* Fri Sep 18 2020 David King - 0.4.15-24

- Fix CVE-2020-25219 (#1880350)

[ 1 ] Bug #1880349 - CVE-2020-25219 libproxy: uncontrolled recursion via an infinite stream response leading to stack exhaustion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880349

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f92d372cf1' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.4.15
Release: 24.fc33
Summary: A library handling all the details of proxy configuration

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