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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2021.0040
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0040)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'synergy' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0040 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'synergy' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0040 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving
a kMsgHelloBack packet with a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295)
if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was verified that this issue does
not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of the
Server is more than 4GB (CVE-2020-15117).

The synergy package has been updated to version 1.12.0, fixing this issue and
several other bugs.

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

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-15117
https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/security/advisories/GHSA-chfm-333q-gfpp
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAQYCMBWNVCIEM27NPIKK3DGJCNBYLAK/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFDEQED64YLWQK2TF73EMXZDYX7YT2DD/
https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/commit/0a97c2be0da2d0df25cb86dfd642429e7a8bea39
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