CVE-2020-15904: Buffer Overflow
First published: Wed Jul 22 2020(Updated: )
A buffer overflow in the patching routine of bsdiff4 before 1.2.0 allows an attacker to write to heap memory (beyond allocated bounds) via a crafted patch file.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Pypi Bsdiff4 | <1.2.0 | |
| pip/bsdiff4 | <1.2.0 | 1.2.0 |
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Reference Links
- https://github.com/ilanschnell/bsdiff4/blob/master/CHANGELOG.txt
- https://github.com/ilanschnell/bsdiff4/commit/49a4cee2feef7deaf9d89e5e793a8824930284d7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15904
- https://github.com/ilanschnell/bsdiff4/blob/9a84c2ee01f5ba0742d18c9f3b3d5244ae7fb302/CHANGELOG.txt#L30-L31
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f8m3-jpxr-hm5x (Advisory)
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/bsdiff4/PYSEC-2020-30.yaml
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