Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 23, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-11939
CVE-2020-11939
Description
In nDPI through 3.2 Stable, the SSH protocol dissector has multiple KEXINIT integer overflows that result in a controlled remote heap overflow in concat_hash_string in ssh.c. Due to the granular nature of the overflow primitive and the ability to control both the contents and layout of the nDPI library's heap memory through remote input, this vulnerability may be abused to achieve full Remote Code Execution against any network inspection stack that is linked against nDPI and uses it to perform network traffic analysis.
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Affected products
8- nDPI/nDPIdescription
- osv-coords6 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=focalpkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=jammypkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=noblepkg:deb/ubuntu/ndpi?arch=src?distro=oracular
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Patches
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References
2- github.com/ntop/nDPI/commit/7ce478a58b4dd29a8d1e6f4e9df2f778613d9202nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-051_052-ntop-ndpinvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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