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Gentoo: 201903-22 High Severity: ZeroMQ Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The latest Gentoo GLSA 202103-15 highlights a critical vulnerability in the OpenSSL library. Users are advised to perform an immediate update to mitigate security concerns.
An overflow was discovered in ZeroMQ which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Please reference the CVE for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue gentoo code execution zeroMQ networking library

Resolution

All ZeroMQ users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/zeromq-4.3.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-6250 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6250

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-22
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: ZeroMQ: Code execution
Date: March 28, 2019
Bugs: #675376
ID: 201903-22

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue gentoo code execution zeroMQ networking library

Synopsis

An overflow was discovered in ZeroMQ which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

Looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-libs/zeromq < 4.3.1 >= 4.3.1

Impact

===== Please reference the CVE for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.