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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0177 Important: Glibc Buffer Overflow Resolution

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2023-0177 addresses security flaws in glibc by enhancing system resilience against severe denial of service attacks in version 8. More information available here.
Denial of service caused by handling a malicious text-form variant

Summary

Denial of service caused by handling a malicious text-form variant. (CVE-2023-24593) Denial of service caused by malicious serialised variant. (CVE-2023-25180)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31805

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FRPEEZJKIVRRCTBOO42O6IY44O5UU3MT/

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2023-April/014499.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24593

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25180

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/glib2.0-2.66.8-1.1.mga8

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 21 May 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0176.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-24593, CVE-2023-25180

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