CVE-2020-27350

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27350
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-10 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-29 02:41:00 UTC
DescriptionAPT had several integer overflows and underflows while parsing .deb packages, aka GHSL-2020-168 GHSL-2020-169, in files apt-pkg/contrib/extracttar.cc, apt-pkg/deb/debfile.cc, and apt-pkg/contrib/arfile.cc. This issue affects: apt 1.2.32ubuntu0 versions prior to 1.2.32ubuntu0.2; 1.6.12ubuntu0 versions prior to 1.6.12ubuntu0.2; 2.0.2ubuntu0 versions prior to 2.0.2ubuntu0.2; 2.1.10ubuntu0 versions prior to 2.1.10ubuntu0.1;

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.10 All All All
Application Debian Advanced Package Tool All All All All
Application Debian Advanced Package Tool All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Hardware Netapp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller - All All All
Operating System Netapp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4808-1 apt DEBIAN www.debian.org Vendor Advisory
Bug #1899193 “local denial of service due to parsing bugs in arf...” : Bugs : apt package : Ubuntu CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Broken Link
CVE-2020-27350 APT Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
USN-4667-1: APT vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Vendor 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: Kevin Backhouse

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