CVE-2020-19861

Summary

CVECVE-2020-19861
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-21 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-05 17:08:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen a zone file in ldns 1.7.1 is parsed, the function ldns_nsec3_salt_data is too trusted for the length value obtained from the zone file. When the memcpy is copied, the 0xfe - ldns_rdf_size(salt_rdf) byte data can be copied, causing heap overflow information leakage.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nlnetlabs Ldns 1.7.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CWE - CWE-126: Buffer Over-read (4.3) MISC cwe.mitre.org
Heap Out-of-bound Read vulnerability · Issue #51 · NLnetLabs/ldns · 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

  • 179054 Debian Security Update for ldns (DLA 2910-1)
  • 198649 Ubuntu Security Notification for ldns Vulnerabilities (USN-5257-1)
  • 671564 EulerOS Security Update for ldns (EulerOS-SA-2022-1572)
  • 671580 EulerOS Security Update for ldns (EulerOS-SA-2022-1538)
  • 671685 EulerOS Security Update for ldns (EulerOS-SA-2022-1737)
  • 751778 OpenSUSE Security Update for ldns (openSUSE-SU-2022:0675-1)
  • 751992 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ldns (SUSE-SU-2022:0675-1)
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