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Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0005 Severe: Openconnect Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Enhanced versions of openconnect have been released, bolstering defenses against potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities linked to manipulated data segment sizes.
Updated openconnect packages fix security vulnerability: Buffer overflow when a malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk sizes (CVE-2019-16239)

Summary

Updated openconnect packages fix security vulnerability:
Buffer overflow when a malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk sizes (CVE-2019-16239).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25803

- - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16239

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix malicious server mageia openconnect

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/openconnect-8.05-1.mga7

Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0005.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-16239

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix malicious server mageia openconnect

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