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Mageia 7: 2020-0418 High: Memory Usage and LDAP Security Concerns

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2021-0507 updates resolve critical security flaws related to network and file system vulnerabilities. Important for all users.
High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces

Summary

High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces. (CVE-2020-14779)
Credentials sent over unencrypted LDAP connection. (CVE-2020-14781)
Certificate blacklist bypass via alternate certificate encodings. (CVE-2020-14782)
Integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds access. (CVE-2020-14792)
Missing permission check in path to URI conversion. (CVE-2020-14796)
Incomplete check for invalid characters in URI to path conversion. (CVE-2020-14797)
Race condition in NIO Buffer boundary checks. (CVE-2020-14803)
Also, the timezone package has been updated to version 2020d.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4347

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html#AppendixJAVA

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OMJMTXFJRONFT72YAEQNRFKYZZU4W3HD/

- https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-April/000058.html

- https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/000059.html

- https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/000060.html

- https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/000062.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14779

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14781

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14782

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14792

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14796

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14797

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14803

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/timezone-2020d-1.mga7

- 7/core/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.272-1.b10.1.mga7

Publication date: 13 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0418.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-14779, CVE-2020-14781, CVE-2020-14782, CVE-2020-14792, CVE-2020-14796, CVE-2020-14797, CVE-2020-14803

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