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Mageia 7: 2019-0344 Critical: Unbound Shell Code Execution Risk

mageia
Calendar Grey November 30, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Implemented a patch for unbound addressing a significant vulnerability in Mageia, which allowed for remote code execution through manipulated replies.
Updated unbound package to version 1.9.5 to fix a potential security vulnerability

Summary

Updated unbound package to version 1.9.5 to fix a potential security vulnerability. In case users recompiled the Mageia package with `--enable-ipsecmod`, and ipsecmod is enabled and used in the configuration, shell code execution would end up being possible after receiving a specially crafted answer (CVE-2019-18934).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25713

- https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2019-18934.txt

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18934

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/unbound-1.9.5-1.mga7

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Publication date: 30 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0344.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-18934

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