Advisories » MGASA-2020-0385

Updated brotli packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Oct 2020
Modification date: 16 Oct 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8927

Description

A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an
attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to
a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data
larger than 2 GiB (CVE-2020-8927).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27406
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4568-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8927

SRPMS

7/core

• brotli-1.0.7-2.1.mga7