Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU34894

Out-of-bounds read in libbsd - CVE-2019-20367

Published: January 8, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU34894

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20367

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: libbsd.freedesktop.org

Affected software:
libbsd

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.

nlist.c in libbsd before 0.10.0 has an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the string table (strtab).

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