Out-of-bounds Read Affecting cgal package, versions <4.9-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-CGAL-1084989
  • published11 Mar 2021
  • disclosed4 Mar 2021

Introduced: 4 Mar 2021

CVE-2020-28601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 cgal to version 4.9-1+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cgal package and not the cgal package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS Scores

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