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CVE-2020-27638

Published: 22 October 2020

receive.c in fastd before v21 allows denial of service (assertion failure) when receiving packets with an invalid type code.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
fastd Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (18-3ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (18-3ubuntu0.1)
	groovy	Released (19-3ubuntu0.1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (21-1)
	xenial	Released (17-4ubuntu0.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972521

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