SB2020052506 - Denial of service in KDE Amarok



SB2020052506 - Denial of service in KDE Amarok

Published: May 25, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020052506
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13152)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted M3U file, that when loaded by the target user, will trigger a memory leak and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.