CVE-2020-27347

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27347
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-06 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-18 20:05:00 UTC
DescriptionIn tmux before version 3.1c the function input_csi_dispatch_sgr_colon() in file input.c contained a stack-based buffer-overflow that can be exploited by terminal output.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tmux Project Tmux All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
raw.githubusercontent.com/tmux/tmux/3.1c/CHANGES CONFIRM raw.githubusercontent.com
Do not write after the end of the array and overwrite the stack when · tmux/tmux@a868bac · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2020-27347: tmux buffer overflow in escape sequence parser MISC www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
tmux: Buffer overflow (GLSA 202011-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Sergey Nizovtsev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296070 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 28.82.3 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 500705 Alpine Linux Security Update for tmux
  • 504477 Alpine Linux Security Update for tmux
  • 670876 EulerOS Security Update for tmux (EulerOS-SA-2020-2537)
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