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openSUSE: 2020:2204-2 Low: Minidlna Path Traversal Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new patch has been issued for openSUSE targeting two vulnerabilities in minidlna, improving both safety and performance.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for minidlna fixes the following issues:

minidlna was updated to version 1.3.0 (boo#1179447)

- Fixed some build warnings when building with musl.

- Use $USER instead of $LOGNAME for the default friendly name.

- Fixed build with GCC 10

- Fixed some warnings from newer compilers

- Disallow negative HTTP chunk lengths. [CVE-2020-28926]

- Validate SUBSCRIBE callback URL. [CVE-2020-12695]

- Fixed spurious warnings with ogg coverart

- Fixed an issue with VLC where browse results would be truncated.

- Fixed bookmarks on Samsung Q series

- Added DSD file support.

- Fixed potential stack smash vulnerability in getsyshwaddr on macOS.

- Will now reload the log file on SIGHUP.

- Worked around bad SearchCriteria from the Control4 Android app.

- Increased max supported network addresses to 8.

- Added forced alphasort capability.

- Added episode season and number metadata...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2204=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

minidlna-1.3.0-bp152.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12695.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28926.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179447

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2204-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 .

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