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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-7919: Improper Certificate Validation

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-7919: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/16/2020
Created
06/11/2020
Added
06/11/2020
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-containerd
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-go

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