Out-of-bounds Write Affecting mendsley/bsdiff package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MENDSLEYBSDIFF-2367400
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-14315  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mendsley/bsdiff.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. A memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3. Insufficient checks when handling external inputs allows an attacker to bypass the sanity checks in place and write out of a dynamically allocated buffer boundaries.

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CVSS Base Scores

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