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Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0051 Moderate: Blosc Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia has released security advisory MGASA-2021-0051, which highlights a critical buffer overflow vulnerability found in the blosc library, specifically impacting version 7.
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library

Summary

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

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29367

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow code execution arbitrary code Mageia blosc library blosc

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/blosc-1.20.1-1.mga7

Publication date: 22 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0051.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-29367

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow code execution arbitrary code Mageia blosc library blosc

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