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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6108: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6108: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/15/2020
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the fsck_chk_orphan_node functionality of F2fs-Tools F2fs.Fsck 1.13. A specially crafted f2fs filesystem can cause a heap buffer overflow resulting in a code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-f2fs-tools

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