Mageia 2021-0019: cherokee security update
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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12845
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0019 - Updated cherokee packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/cherokee-1.2.103-17.1.mga7