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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2021.0019
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0019)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'cherokee' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0019 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'cherokee' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0019 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL
pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server
by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed
Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call
within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest.
(CVE-2020-12845).

Affected Software/OS:
'cherokee' package(s) on Mageia 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-12845
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
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