CVE-2020-27638

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27638
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-22 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:20:00 UTC
Descriptionreceive.c in fastd before v21 allows denial of service (assertion failure) when receiving packets with an invalid type code.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Fastd Project Fastd All All All All
Application Fastd Project Fastd All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: fastd-21-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: fastd-21-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA-2414-1] fastd security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
#972521 - fastd: CVE-2020-27638: DoS'able memory leak on invalid packets - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: fastd-21-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: fastd-21-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: fastd-21-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
fastd v21 — fastd 21 documentation MISC fastd.readthedocs.io Broken Link, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
receive: fix buffer leak when receiving invalid packets · NeoRaider/fastd@7379251 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: fastd-21-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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