Advisories » MGASA-2017-0436

Updated shadowsocks-libev packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Dec 2017
Modification date: 01 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-15924

Description

In manager.c in ss-manager in shadowsocks-libev 3.1.0, improper parsing
allows command injection via shell metacharacters in a JSON configuration
request received via 127.0.0.1 UDP traffic, related to the add_server,
build_config, and construct_command_line functions
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22037
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4009
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-11/msg00045.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15924

SRPMS

6/core

• shadowsocks-libev-3.1.0-1.mga6