Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

Simon Matter wrote:

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Since security updates for CentOS 6 are not provided anymore, I've decided to try my best to address CVE-2020-1971 and I welcome others to do the same for this and other new issues which may come up.

Thanks to Simon for doing this.

I made my own patch which ended up the same as Simon's apart from whitespace and formatting. It's been deployed on a CentOS 6 system that can't be upgraded yet due to... reasons. Seems to work in the limited testing I've done.

Thanks Ron for your feedback! It gives us more confidence that the patch is correct.

I'm also using it on a number of systems without issues.

Regards, Simon