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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0123 Critical: libapreq2 Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2023-0134 introduces a vital patch for libapreq2 aimed at correcting a security vulnerability related to buffer overflow and potential remote denial of service exploits.
A flaw in Apache libapreq2 versions 2.16 and earlier could cause a buffer overflow while processing multipart form uploads

Summary

A flaw in Apache libapreq2 versions 2.16 and earlier could cause a buffer overflow while processing multipart form uploads. A remote attacker could send a request causing a process crash which could lead to a denial of service attack. (CVE-2022-22728)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30778

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/25/3

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/2PUUS3JL44UUSLJTSXE46HVKZIW7E7PE/

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/02/2

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00009.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22728

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libapreq2-2.130.0-31.1.mga8

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Publication date: 06 Apr 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0123.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-22728

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