CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-12825

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: May 12, 2020 | Modified: Oct 27, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

libcroco through 0.6.13 has excessive recursion in cr_parser_parse_any_core in cr-parser.c, leading to stack consumption.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libcroco Gnome * 0.6.13 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libcroco-0:0.6.12-6.el7_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libcroco-0:0.6.12-4.el8_2.1 *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu bionic *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu groovy *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu hirsute *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu impish *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu kinetic *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu trusty *
Gnome-shell Ubuntu xenial *
Libcroco Ubuntu bionic *
Libcroco Ubuntu eoan *
Libcroco Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Libcroco Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Libcroco Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Libcroco Ubuntu focal *
Libcroco Ubuntu groovy *
Libcroco Ubuntu precise/esm *
Libcroco Ubuntu trusty *
Libcroco Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Libcroco Ubuntu upstream *
Libcroco Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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