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Mageia 7: 2021-0019 Critical Cherokee Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Apache 2.4.41 to 2.4.54 has a potential remote code execution vulnerability due to an integer overflow caused by specially crafted HTTP headers.
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences

Summary

Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest. (CVE-2020-12845).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27736

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12845

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical vulnerability patch HTTP request cherokee Mageia mageia Cherokee

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/cherokee-1.2.103-17.1.mga7

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Publication date: 10 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0019.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-12845

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical vulnerability patch HTTP request cherokee Mageia mageia Cherokee

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