Debian Security Advisory
DLA-2076-1 slirp -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 26 Jan 2020
- Affected Packages:
- slirp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 949085.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-7039. - More information:
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An issue has been found in slirp, a SLIP/PPP emulator using a dial up shell account. Due to bad memory handling in slirp a heap-based buffer overflow or other out-of-bounds access could happen, which can lead to a DoS or potential execute arbitrary code.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.0.17-7+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your slirp packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS