Out-of-bounds Write Affecting opendmarc package, versions <1.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.68% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-OPENDMARC-1146739
  • published22 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Jul 2020

Introduced: 27 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-12460  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 opendmarc to version 1.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opendmarc package and not the opendmarc package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse that can result in a one-byte heap overflow in opendmarc_xml when parsing a specially crafted DMARC aggregate report. This can cause remote memory corruption when a '\0' byte overwrites the heap metadata of the next chunk and its PREV_INUSE flag.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1