Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0385 Critical: Brotli Buffer Overflow
mageia
October 16, 2020
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 ...
Summary
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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8927
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/brotli-1.0.7-2.1.mga7
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Publication date: 16 Oct 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0385.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-8927
Topics Covered
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