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Synthesis of the vulnerability
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via Dirfile Database of libgetdata, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.Vulnerable software: Debian.Severity of this announce: 2/4.Creation date: 17/05/2021.Références of this computer vulnerability: CVE-2021-20204, DLA-2660-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-35413.
Description of the vulnerability
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via Dirfile Database of libgetdata, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.Full bulletin, software filtering, emails, fixes, ... (Request your free trial)
This cybersecurity bulletin impacts software or systems such as Debian.
Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this cybersecurity weakness is medium.
The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.
An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this computer vulnerability bulletin.
Solutions for this threat
Debian 9: new libgetdata packages.New packages are available: Debian 9: libgetdata 0.9.4-1+deb9u1Full bulletin, software filtering, emails, fixes, ... (Request your free trial)