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Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0107 Critical: zsh Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey February 29, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0108 critical patch for zsh addressing a security vulnerability. Immediate response advised.
Updated zsh packages fix security vulnerability: A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in zsh, whereby a user could regain a formerly elevated privelege level even w...

Summary

Updated zsh packages fix security vulnerability:
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in zsh, whereby a user could regain a formerly elevated privelege level even when such an action should not be permitted (CVE-2019-20044).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26252

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00004.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20044

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation Mageia zsh

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/zsh-5.7.1-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 29 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0107.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20044

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation Mageia zsh

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