CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28241

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2020-11-06
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-125

Description

libmaxminddb before 1.4.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dump_entry_data_list in maxminddb.c.

Affected configurations

• maxmind libmaxminddb (< 1.4.3) • debian debian linux 9.0 • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References

https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/compare/1.4.2...1.4.3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/issues/236 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/pull/237 Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WUK4UCOB5FJVK36E22IRLEYGKMUWGBG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ELTOHZBPO6XVUVADP4DPZBNQCPTYOQBV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-15 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/compare/1.4.2...1.4.3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/issues/236 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/pull/237 Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WUK4UCOB5FJVK36E22IRLEYGKMUWGBG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ELTOHZBPO6XVUVADP4DPZBNQCPTYOQBV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-15 Third Party Advisory