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Mageia: 2020-0061 Moderate: Libbsd Out-Of-Bounds Access Issue

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Notice issued regarding Mageia concerning the libbsd 0.9.1 buffer overflow flaw. Update your packages promptly to ensure system safety.
It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings, due to an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the string table (strtab) in nlist.c

Summary

It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings, due to an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the string table (strtab) in nlist.c. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information (CVE-2019-20367).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26132

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4243-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20367

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue information leak libbsd Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/libbsd-0.9.1-3.1.mga7

Publication date: 28 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0061.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20367

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue information leak libbsd Mageia

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