Advisories » MGASA-2020-0219

Updated libntlm packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 May 2020
Modification date: 24 May 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-17455

Description

Updated libntlm packages fix security vulnerability:

It was discovered that libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size
for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse
read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer
over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM
request (CVE-2019-17455).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26609
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2207
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17455

SRPMS

7/core

• libntlm-1.6-1.mga7