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FreeBSD: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7450): pkg -- vulnerability in libfetch

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FreeBSD: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7450): pkg -- vulnerability in libfetch

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/28/2020
Created
02/01/2020
Added
01/30/2020
Modified
03/09/2020

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-2AF10639-4299-11EA-AAB1-98FA9BFEC35A:

A programming error allows an attacker who can specify a URL with a username

and/or password components to overflow libfetch(3) buffers.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-11_3-release-p6
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-12_0-release-p13
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-12_1-release-p2
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-pkg
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-pkg-devel

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