MGASA-2021-0051 - Updated blosc packages fix a security vulnerability Publication date: 22 Jan 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0051.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 CVE: CVE-2020-29367 A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library. Depending on how the library is used, if there is a lack of space to write compressed data, an attacker might exploit this flaw to crash the program or potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-29367). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27953 - https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/VPTII3AXCRZZGBCOLCFY7HQI24L2PGVQ/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29367 SRPMS: - 7/core/blosc-1.20.1-1.mga7
Mageia 2021-0051: blosc security update
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library
Summary
CVE: CVE-2020-29367
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library.
Depending on how the library is used, if there is a lack of space to write
compressed data, an attacker might exploit this flaw to crash the program or
potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-29367).
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0051 - Updated blosc packages fix a security vulnerability
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27953
- https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/VPTII3AXCRZZGBCOLCFY7HQI24L2PGVQ/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29367
Severity
Issued Date: 22 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0051.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
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