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Mageia 8: MGASA-2021-0309 Critical: NetworkManager Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the NetworkManager packages rectify a severe vulnerability that affects overall system stability and leads to crashes in user profiles within Mageia.
A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0

Summary

A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-20297)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28953

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20297

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update security fix crash risk NetworkManager Mageia system availability

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/networkmanager-1.26.6-1.1.mga8

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 04 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0309.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-20297

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update security fix crash risk NetworkManager Mageia system availability

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