CVE-2020-15904

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15904
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-22 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-28 02:04:00 UTC
DescriptionA buffer overflow in the patching routine of bsdiff4 before 1.2.0 allows an attacker to write to heap memory (beyond allocated bounds) via a crafted patch file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pypi Bsdiff4 All All All All
Application Pypi Bsdiff4 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
apply patch from Robert Scott to fix - shifting some bounds checking · ilanschnell/bsdiff4@49a4cee · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
bsdiff4/CHANGELOG.txt at master · ilanschnell/bsdiff4 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997545 Python (Pip) Security Update for bsdiff4 (GHSA-f8m3-jpxr-hm5x)

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