Updated cherokee packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 10 Jan 2021Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-12845
Description
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest. (CVE-2020-12845).
References
SRPMS
7/core
- cherokee-1.2.103-17.1.mga7