Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ndpi package, versions <3.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-NDPI-5689492
  • published27 Apr 2020
  • disclosed23 Apr 2020

Introduced: 23 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ndpi to version 3.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ndpi package and not the ndpi package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

In nDPI through 3.2 Stable, an out-of-bounds read in concat_hash_string in ssh.c can be exploited by a network-positioned attacker that can send malformed SSH protocol messages on a network segment monitored by nDPI's library.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1