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Mageia: 2020-0389 Important: openldap Security Flaw in Memory Management

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Calendar Grey July 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised tcpreplay versions address a critical heap buffer vulnerability impacting Mageia 7. Vital security patch released in July 2020.
Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerability: tcprewrite in Tcpreplay through 4.3.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read during a get_c operation

Summary

Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerability:
tcprewrite in Tcpreplay through 4.3.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read during a get_c operation. The issue is being triggered in the function get_ipv6_next() at common/get.c (CVE-2020-12740).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26885

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4YAT4AGTHQKB74ETOQPJMV67TSDIAPOC/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12740

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow heap issue Mageia tcpreplay

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/tcpreplay-4.3.3-1.mga7

Severity
important
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Publication date: 05 Jul 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0278.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-12740

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow heap issue Mageia tcpreplay

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