Out-of-bounds Write Affecting musl package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MUSL-2382087
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-28928  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for musl.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In musl libc through 1.2.1, wcsnrtombs mishandles particular combinations of destination buffer size and source character limit, as demonstrated by an invalid write access (buffer overflow).

References

CVSS Base Scores

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