MGASA-2020-0385 - Updated brotli packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Oct 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0385.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8927

A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an
attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to
a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data
larger than 2 GiB (CVE-2020-8927).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27406
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4568-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8927

SRPMS:
- 7/core/brotli-1.0.7-2.1.mga7