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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0471 Critical: libmaxminddb Heap Overread

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The recent patch from Mageia for libmaxminddb resolves heap over-read vulnerabilities, enhancing the overall security of your system.
libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241)

Summary

libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c (CVE-2020-28241).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27608

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00019.html

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4631-1

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6WUK4UCOB5FJVK36E22IRLEYGKMUWGBG/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28241

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/libmaxminddb-1.3.2-3.1.mga7

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Publication date: 28 Dec 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0471.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-28241

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