Out-of-bounds Read Affecting electron package, versions <6.1.10 >=7.0.0 <7.2.2 >=8.0.0 <8.2.0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-565052
- published 9 Mar 2020
- disclosed 6 Mar 2020
- credit Natalie Silvanovich
Introduced: 6 Mar 2020
CVE-2019-20503 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 6.1.10, 7.2.2, 8.2.0 or higher.
Overview
electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The input to sctp_load_addresses_from_init is verified by calling sctp_arethere_unrecognized_parameters, however there is a difference in how these functions handle parameter bounds. The function sctp_arethere_unrecognized_parameters does not process a parameter that is partially outside of the limit of the chunk, meanwhile, sctp_load_addresses_from_init will continue processing until a parameter that is entirely outside of the chunk occurs.
This means that the last parameter of a chunk is not always verified, which can lead to parameters with very short plen values being processed by sctp_load_addresses_from_init. This can lead to out-of-bounds reads whenever the plen is subtracted from the header len.