Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0312 (libsoup)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0312: Updated libsoup packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sat, 2 Nov 2019 17:55:40 +0100
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MGASA-2019-0312 - Updated libsoup packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0312.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-17266

Description:
Updated libsoup package fixes security vulnerability:

It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled parsing certain NTLM
messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to
a malicious server, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service (CVE-2019-17266).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25642
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4152-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/libsoup-2.66.1-2.1.mga7