Mageia alert MGASA-2020-0061 (libbsd)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2020-0061: Updated libbsd packages fix security vulnerability 
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Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:53:56 +0100
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MGASA-2020-0061 - Updated libbsd packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0061.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-20367

Description:
It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings, due
to an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the
string table (strtab) in nlist.c. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to access sensitive information (CVE-2019-20367).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26132
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-2...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/libbsd-0.9.1-3.1.mga7