OESA-2021-1287

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    OESA-2021-1287

    Published: 31 Jul 2021Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-28241

    Summary: libmaxminddb security update

    Details: The libmaxminddb library provides a C library for reading MaxMind DB files, including the GeoIP2 databases from MaxMind. This is a custom binary format designed to facilitate fast lookups of IP addresses while allowing for great flexibility in the type of data associated with an address. Security Fix(es): libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.(CVE-2020-28241)

    References: https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1287, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28241

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libmaxminddb

    Purl: pkg:rpm/openEuler/libmaxminddb&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.0-8.oe1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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