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Gentoo: GLSA-201908-17 High: ZeroMQ Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA-202210-08 Highlights a critical vulnerability in ZeroMQ that permits unauthorized code execution. Users should perform updates promptly.
A vulnerability in ZeroMQ might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

A buffer overflow was discovered in ZeroMQ.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo buffer overflow arbitrary code execution zeromq

Resolution

All ZeroMQ users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/zeromq-4.3.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-13132 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13132

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-17
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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: Arbitrary code execution
Date: August 15, 2019
Bugs: #689426
ID: 201908-17

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo buffer overflow arbitrary code execution zeromq

Synopsis

A vulnerability in ZeroMQ might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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 < 4.3.2 >= 4.3.2

Impact

===== An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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