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Mageia: MGASA-2021-0014 Moderate: Alpine Preauth Connection Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The recent c-client security patch MGASA-2021-0014 for Alpine addresses vulnerabilities related to connection stability. Stay updated on the applied solutions.
Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alterna...

Summary

Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do (CVE-2020-14929).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26880

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14929

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate moderate severity connection issue Mageia insecure connection Alpine c-client preauth issue

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/alpine-2.11-5.1.mga7

- 7/core/c-client-2007f-13.1.mga7

Publication date: 10 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0014.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-14929

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate moderate severity connection issue Mageia insecure connection Alpine c-client preauth issue

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