Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting synergy package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SYNERGY-585927
  • published19 Jul 2020
  • disclosed15 Jul 2020

Introduced: 15 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 synergy.

NVD Description

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

In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving a kMsgHelloBack packet with a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295) if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was verified that this issue does not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of the Server is more than 4GB.

CVSS Scores

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