Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8938",
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    "title": "CVE-2020-8938",
    "summary": "An arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in Asylo versions up to 0.6.0 allows an attacker to make a host call to FromkLinuxSockAddr with attacker controlled content and size of klinux_addr which allows an attacker to write memory values from within the enclave. We recommend upgrading past commit a37fb6a0e7daf30134dbbf357c9a518a1026aa02",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2020-12-15T15:15:13.3+00:00"
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