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Mageia: 2020-0143 Critical: Sleuthkit Stack Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to Sleuthkit packages fix a critical stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Mageia 7. This patch boosts security and lowers exploitation risks.
Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerability: In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file times...

Summary

Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerability:
In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in fs/yaffs.c (CVE-2020-10232).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26336

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00011.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10232

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow stack overflow mageia file parsing sleuthkit

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/sleuthkit-4.6.6-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 18 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0143.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-10232

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow stack overflow mageia file parsing sleuthkit

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