Advisories » MGASA-2020-0398

Updated libuv packages a fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Nov 2020
Modification date: 08 Nov 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8252

Description

The implementation of realpath in libuv before 1.39 incorrectly determined the
buffer size which can result in a buffer overflow if the resolved path is
longer than 256 bytes (CVE-2020-8252).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27403
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4548-1
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/GRACEATF77QULUT3WY4JG54X5ZI4OUWO/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8252

SRPMS

7/core

• libuv-1.34.2-1.1.mga7