CVE-2020-8244
MEDIUM
6.5
Our Analysis: General Purpose
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Published Date
August 30, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
CVSS Vector
Not Available
Description
A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.