Advisories » MGASA-2021-0343

Updated libgrss packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Jul 2021
Modification date: 12 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2016-20011

Description

libgrss does not perform any TLS certificate verification because it uses the
deprecated SoupSessionAsync, which requires manually enabling certificate
verification, rather than a modern SoupSession that has good defaults
(CVE-2016-20011).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29092
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-20011

SRPMS

7/core

• libgrss-0.7.0-2.1.mga7

8/core

• libgrss-0.7.0-4.1.mga8