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CVE-2020-12825

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: May 12, 2020 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12825
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html

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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibcrocoGnome*0.6.13 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatlibcroco-0:0.6.12-6.el7_9*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatlibcroco-0:0.6.12-4.el8_2.1*
Gnome-shellUbuntubionic*
Gnome-shellUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Gnome-shellUbuntugroovy*
Gnome-shellUbuntuhirsute*
Gnome-shellUbuntuimpish*
Gnome-shellUbuntukinetic*
Gnome-shellUbuntutrusty*
Gnome-shellUbuntuxenial*
LibcrocoUbuntubionic*
LibcrocoUbuntueoan*
LibcrocoUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
LibcrocoUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/xenial*
LibcrocoUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
LibcrocoUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
LibcrocoUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
LibcrocoUbuntufocal*
LibcrocoUbuntugroovy*
LibcrocoUbuntuprecise/esm*
LibcrocoUbuntutrusty*
LibcrocoUbuntutrusty/esm*
LibcrocoUbuntuupstream*
LibcrocoUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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