Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ossec/ossec-hids package, versions [,3.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.39% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OSSECOSSECHIDS-2366177
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-8442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ossec/ossec-hids to version 3.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the rootcheck decoder component via an authenticated client.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1