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Mageia: 2022-0070 Moderate: rlwrap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to rlwrap packages resolve a vulnerability that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) issue for users operating on Mageia platforms. Released on: February 18, 2022.
rlwrap update fixes use of /tmp/rlwrap.debug causing a denial of service for other users on the same system

Summary

rlwrap update fixes use of /tmp/rlwrap.debug causing a denial of service for other users on the same system. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30036

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30036

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/75IFRDJ4JMJTPQCPYVWJMIZTEJ6I367Y/

- https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap/releases

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service service issue mageia rlwrap

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/rlwrap-0.45.2-1.mga8

Publication date: 18 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0069.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service service issue mageia rlwrap

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