Advisories » MGASA-2021-0014

Updated alpine and c-client packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jan 2021
Modification date: 10 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-14929

Description

Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls
is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure
behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user
decide what they would like to do (CVE-2020-14929).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26880
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2254
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14929

SRPMS

7/core

• alpine-2.11-5.1.mga7
• c-client-2007f-13.1.mga7