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CVE-2020-29363

Public on 2020-12-16
Modified on 2021-02-19
Description

An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.23.6 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by p11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE, the receiving entity may not allocate sufficient length for the buffer to store the deserialized value.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core p11-kit 2021-02-17 18:10 ALAS2-2021-1601

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-29363 Mitre: CVE-2020-29363 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity