Mageia 2021-0141: ksh security update
Summary
A flaw was found in the way ksh evaluates certain environment variables. An
attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to
execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote
unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could
allow them to exploit this issue remotely (CVE-2019-14868).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26213
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/N4R57SLEOTTXFWOLPTVVS2AOZ35FZEJR/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14868
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0141 - Updated ksh packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/ksh-2020.0.0.81.git8052490-0.1.1.mga7