CVE-2019-20367
9.1
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 2.8% (pctl 86)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.1), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
nlist.c in libbsd before 0.10.0 has an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the string table (strtab).
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 2.81% — more likely to be exploited than 86% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-125 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2020-01-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (4)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| freedesktop | libbsd |
| opensuse | leap |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00043.html
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libbsd/libbsd/commit/9d917aad37778a9f4a96ba358415f077f3f36f3b
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0e913668380f59bcbd14fdd8ae8d24f95f99995e290cd18a7822c6e5%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra781e51cf1ec40381c98cddc073b3576fb56c3978f4564d2fa431550%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00027.html
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libbsd/2019-August/000229.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00043.html
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libbsd/libbsd/commit/9d917aad37778a9f4a96ba358415f077f3f36f3b
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0e913668380f59bcbd14fdd8ae8d24f95f99995e290cd18a7822c6e5%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra781e51cf1ec40381c98cddc073b3576fb56c3978f4564d2fa431550%40%3Cdev.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00027.html
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libbsd/2019-August/000229.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4243-1/
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