MGASA-2020-0087 - Updated sphinx packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0087.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14511

Updated sphinx packages fix security vulnerability:

A vulnerability was found in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx 3.1.1 by default has
no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0, making it exposed to the internet,
unless filtered by a firewall or reconfigured to listen to 127.0.0.1 only
(CVE-2019-14511).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25946
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14511

SRPMS:
- 7/core/sphinx-2.3.2-0.beta.1.1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0087: sphinx security update

Updated sphinx packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability was found in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx 3.1.1 by default has no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0, making i...

Summary

Updated sphinx packages fix security vulnerability:
A vulnerability was found in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx 3.1.1 by default has no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0, making it exposed to the internet, unless filtered by a firewall or reconfigured to listen to 127.0.0.1 only (CVE-2019-14511).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25946

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14511

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0087 - Updated sphinx packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/sphinx-2.3.2-0.beta.1.1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 18 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0087.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14511

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