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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2020-139

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2020-139
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published March 12, 2020
Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp. When receiving an EAP Request message in client mode, an attacker was able to overflow the rhostname array by providing a very long name (CVE-2020-8597).
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Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiamsec0 (affected), 2.8-1.mga7 (unaffected)—
Mageiappp0 (affected), 2.4.7-13.1.mga7 (unaffected), 2.4.7-13.1.mga7 (unaffected), 0 (affected)—

References

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability
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Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability
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Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability
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Updated msec packages fix sysctl.conf after reboot
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Updated msec packages fix sysctl.conf after reboot
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