MGASA-2018-0036

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    MGASA-2018-0036

    Published: 3 Jan 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-12865

    Summary: Updated connman packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Security consultants in NRI Secure Technologies discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in ConnMan. An attacker with control of the DNS responses to the DNS proxy in ConnMan might crash the service and, in same cases, remotely execute arbitrary commands in the host running the service (CVE-2017-12865)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0036.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21629, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3956

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: connman

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/connman?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.24-4.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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