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Debian: CVE-2020-14315: bsdiff -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-14315: bsdiff -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2020
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3. Insufficient checks when handling external inputs allows an attacker to bypass the sanity checks in place and write out of a dynamically allocated buffer boundaries.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-bsdiff

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