Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-14315
CVE-2020-14315
Description
A memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3. Insufficient checks when handling external inputs allows an attacker to bypass the sanity checks in place and write out of a dynamically allocated buffer boundaries.
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Affected products
2- Colin Percival/bsdiff toolsdescription
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References
3- www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2020-006-bspatch/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/09/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
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