CVE-2020-14315

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-14315
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-16 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-01 18:38:00 UTC
DescriptionA memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3. Insufficient checks when handling external inputs allows an attacker to bypass the sanity checks in place and write out of a dynamically allocated buffer boundaries.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Daemonology Bsdiff 4.3 All All All
Application Daemonology Bsdiff 4.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Advisory X41-2020-006: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in bspatch | X41 D-SEC GmbH MISC www.x41-dsec.de Exploit, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory X41-2020-006: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in bspatch MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
1856747 – (CVE-2020-14315) CVE-2020-14315 bsdiff: handling external inputs allows attacker to bypass sanity checks MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180796 Debian Security Update for bsdiff (CVE-2020-14315)

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