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Debian: CVE-2020-5243: uap-core -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-5243: uap-core -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/21/2020
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

uap-core before 0.7.3 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing crafted User-Agent strings. Some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings. This has been patched in uap-core 0.7.3.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-uap-core

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