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Mageia 7, 8: MGASA-2021-0331 Moderate: Connman Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent connman updates rectify buffer overflow vulnerability in Mageia. Critical security enhancement applied.
Updated connman packages fix security vulnerability

Summary

Updated connman packages fix security vulnerability.
ConnMan (aka Connection Manager) 1.30 through 1.39 has a stack-based buffer overflow in uncompress in dnsproxy.c via NAME, RDATA, or RDLENGTH (for A or AAAA) (CVE-2021-33833).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29124

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/09/1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33833

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update security fix moderate severity connman mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/connman-1.38-2.1.mga8

- 7/core/connman-1.37-1.2.mga7

Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0331.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-33833

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update security fix moderate severity connman mageia

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