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Mageia 8: 2021-0596 Moderate: Toxcore Buffer Overflow Advisory

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2021-0597 patches address critical buffer overflow in libxyz. Check for impacted environments and corrective measures.
stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request() in DHT.c (CVE-2021-44847) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29821 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/li...

Summary

stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request() in DHT.c (CVE-2021-44847)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29821

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/S7EBS3NIRYJ7V3PTNINP3PJSVUHGZTGA/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44847

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix stack overflow Mageia toxcore DHT

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/toxcore-0.2.12-1.1.mga8

Severity
important
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Critical

Publication date: 30 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0596.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-44847

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow security fix stack overflow Mageia toxcore DHT

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