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openSUSE: 2021:1640-1 Moderate: c-toxcore Remote DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch release rectifies a substantial vulnerability in c-toxcore for openSUSE Leap 15.2 and its derived versions, enhancing overall protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

c-toxcore was updated fo fix a securiy issue:

- CVE-2021-44847: Fixed a buffer overflow in handle_request in DHT.c which

could lead to remote DoS and potential code execution (boo#1193667)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS remote execution openSUSE c-toxcore

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 Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1640=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1640=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1640=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1640=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

c-toxcore-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-debuginfo-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

c-toxcore-debuginfo-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

c-toxcore-devel-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

libtoxcore2-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

libtoxcore2-debuginfo-0.2.13-lp152.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

c-toxcore-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

c-toxcore-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

c-toxcore-devel-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

libtoxcore2-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

libtoxcore2-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp153.2.3.1

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

c-toxcore-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

c-toxcore-daemon-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

c-toxcore-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

c-toxcore-devel-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

libtoxcore2-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

libtoxcore2-debuginfo-0.2.13-bp152.4.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

c-toxcore-0.2.13-bp151.3.3...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44847.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193667

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1640-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS remote execution openSUSE c-toxcore

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