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Mageia: 2020-0340 Moderate: ngircd Out-Of-Bounds Access Issue

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2021-0420 upgrades ngircd to address potential buffer overflow issue. Comprehensive information regarding the patch is provided.
The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function

Summary

The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function. (CVE-2020-14148)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26853

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00023.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14148

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security fix access issue out-of-bounds ngircd Mageia server protocol

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/ngircd-25-1.1.mga7

Publication date: 20 Aug 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0340.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-14148

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security fix access issue out-of-bounds ngircd Mageia server protocol

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