Mageia alert MGASA-2020-0139 (ppp)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2020-0139: Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:47:55 +0100
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MGASA-2020-0139 - Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0139.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8597

Description:
Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability:

Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp.
When receiving an EAP Request message in client mode, an attacker was
able to overflow the rhostname array by providing a very long name
(CVE-2020-8597).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26217
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2097
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8597

SRPMS:
- 7/core/ppp-2.4.7-13.1.mga7