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Mageia 7 MGASA-2021-0088 Moderate: Veracrypt Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest Veracrypt release resolves a critical buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in unauthorized data exposure, impacting Mageia version 7.
IDRIX, Truecrypt Veracrypt, Truecrypt Prior to 1.23-Hotfix-1 (Veracrypt), all versions (Truecrypt) is affected by a Buffer Overflow that can lead to information disclosure of kern...

Summary

IDRIX, Truecrypt Veracrypt, Truecrypt Prior to 1.23-Hotfix-1 (Veracrypt), all versions (Truecrypt) is affected by a Buffer Overflow that can lead to information disclosure of kernel stack through a locally executed code with IOCTL request to driver (CVE-2019-1010208).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28078

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1010208

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow information disclosure Mageia mageia Veracrypt

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/veracrypt-1.23-1.2.mga7

Publication date: 19 Feb 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0088.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-1010208

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow information disclosure Mageia mageia Veracrypt

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