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CVE-2020-5208

Public on 2020-02-05
Modified on 2020-05-06
Description

A flaw was found in several functions of the IPMItool, where it failed to check data received from a LAN properly. An attacker could use this flaw to craft payloads, which can lead to a buffer overflow and also cause memory corruption, a denial of service, and remote code execution.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ipmitool 2020-05-05 01:16 ALAS2-2020-1420

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N