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Mageia: 2020-0076 Moderate: mgetty Infinite Loop DoS Attack Mitigation

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest mgetty update resolves a serious security flaw that could lead to an infinite loop and possible Denial of Service (DoS). Get all the key details now!
Updated mgetty package fixes security vulnerability: mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop

Summary

Updated mgetty package fixes security vulnerability:
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file (CVE-2019-1010189).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25941

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YH7KTF6IB4LZURQHCOICNVE6YDAIHV62/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1010189

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/mgetty-1.2.1-1.mga7

Publication date: 09 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0076.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-1010189

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Topics Covered

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