MGASA-2021-0019

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    MGASA-2021-0019

    Published: 10 Jan 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-12845

    Summary: Updated cherokee packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest. (CVE-2020-12845).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0019.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27736

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cherokee

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cherokee?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.103-17.1.mga7

    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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