glsa-202011-15.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202011-15">
  <title>libmaxminddb: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in libmaxminddb could lead to a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libmaxminddb</product>
  <announced>2020-11-14</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-11-14</revised>
  <bug>753275</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/libmaxminddb" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The libmaxminddb library provides a C library for reading MaxMind DB
      files, including the GeoIP2 databases from MaxMind.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>libmaxminddb used uninitialised memory when reading from a corrupt
      database file.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to use a specially crafted
      database with libmaxminddb, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service
      condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libmaxminddb users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libmaxminddb-1.4.3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28241">CVE-2020-28241</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-11-12T15:42:40Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-11-14T18:14:48Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>