Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU55008

NULL pointer dereference in Gobby - CVE-2020-35450

Published: July 20, 2021

Vulnerability identifier: #VU55008

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35450

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the D-Bus handler for certain set_language calls. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

Gobby
Arch Linux
gobby

How to mitigate CVE-2020-35450

Install update from vendor's website.

Gobby - update to 0.6.0
gobby - update to 1

External References

https://github.com/gobby/gobby/pull/184

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