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OESA-2021-1037 (CVE-2020-12658)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-02-10 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

gssproxy security update

Details

This is a proxy for GSSAPI which deals with credential handling.\r\n\r\n Security Fix(es):\r\n\r\n ** DISPUTED ** gssproxy (aka gss-proxy) before 0.8.3 does not unlock cond_mutex before pthread exit in gp_worker_main() in gp_workers.c. NOTE: An upstream comment states "We are already on a shutdown path when running the code in question, so a DoS there doesn't make any sense, and there has been no additional information provided us (as upstream) to indicate why this would be a problem."(CVE-2020-12658)\r\n\r\n

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12658	ADVISORY

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CVE-2020-12658 (GCVE-0-2020-12658)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-31 00:17 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04 Disputed

Summary

gssproxy (aka gss-proxy) before 0.8.3 does not unlock cond_mutex before pthread exit in gp_worker_main() in gp_workers.c. NOTE: An upstream comment states "We are already on a shutdown path when running the code in question, so a DoS there doesn't make any sense, and there has been no additional information provided us (as upstream) to indicate why this would be a problem.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://pagure.io/gssproxy/c/cb761412e299ef907f22…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/gssapi/gssproxy/compare/v0.8.2…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/gssapi/gssproxy/commit/cb76141…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

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