Advisories » MGASA-2021-0325

Updated libosinfo packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jul 2021
Modification date: 10 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-13313

Description

Updated libosinfo packages fix security vulnerability:

A flaw was found in libosinfo, version 1.5.0, where the script for
automated guest installations, 'osinfo-install-script', accepts user
and admin passwords via command line arguments. This could allow guest
passwords to leak to other system users via a process listing
(CVE-2019-13313).

The libosinfo package has been updated to version 1.8.0, fixing this
issue and other bugs.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25112
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3387
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4758
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13313

SRPMS

7/core

• libosinfo-1.8.0-1.mga7