CVE-2020-8244

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8244
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-30 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-24 17:31:00 UTC
DescriptionA buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bufferlist Project Bufferlist All All All All
Application Bufferlist Project Bufferlist All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2698-1] node-bl security update MLIST lists.debian.org
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178691 Debian Security Update for node-bl (DLA 2698-1)
  • 198527 Ubuntu Security Notification for bl Vulnerability (USN-5098-1)
  • 982627 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for bl (GHSA-pp7h-53gx-mx7r)

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