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Mageia 8: MGASA-2021-0376 Critical: IP Handling Misinterpretation

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest perl-Net-CIDR-Lite module addresses a critical security vulnerability related to IP address processing in Mageia 8.
It was discovered that the perl Net-CIDR-Lite module did not correctly handle IP addresses with IP octets containing leading zeros

Summary

It was discovered that the perl Net-CIDR-Lite module did not correctly handle IP addresses with IP octets containing leading zeros. Leading zeros were ignored, while the underlying system can treat such octets as octal numbers and interpret them differently. For example, IP address of 010.0.0.1 was considered by Net CIDR-Lite to be the same address as 10.0.0.1, while system may consider it to be

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29025

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LDO7X4TBRIVL4G3GLZBEHFXC7IXMBAMW/

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961865

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Mageia IP handling Net-CIDR-Lite

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/perl-Net-CIDR-Lite-0.220.0-1.mga8

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Publication date: 27 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0376.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Mageia IP handling Net-CIDR-Lite

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