Advisories » MGASA-2021-0051

Updated blosc packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 22 Jan 2021
Modification date: 22 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-29367

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library.
Depending on how the library is used, if there is a lack of space to write
compressed data, an attacker might exploit this flaw to crash the program or
potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-29367).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27953
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/VPTII3AXCRZZGBCOLCFY7HQI24L2PGVQ/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29367

SRPMS

7/core

• blosc-1.20.1-1.mga7