Advisories » MGASA-2023-0180

Updated dmidecode packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 May 2023
Modification date: 21 May 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2023-30630

Description

Dmidecode allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This has security
relevance because, for example, execution of Dmidecode via Sudo is
plausible. (CVE-2023-30630)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31883
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2023-April/014548.html
• https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dmidecode-devel/2023-04/msg00016.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30630

SRPMS

8/core

• dmidecode-3.5-1.mga8