CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-23856

Use After Free

Published: May 18, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-Free vulnerability in cflow 1.6 in the void call(char *name, int line) function at src/parser.c, which could cause a denial of service via the pointer variable caller->callee.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cflow Gnu 1.6 (including) 1.6 (including)
Cflow Ubuntu bionic *
Cflow Ubuntu focal *
Cflow Ubuntu groovy *
Cflow Ubuntu hirsute *
Cflow Ubuntu impish *
Cflow Ubuntu kinetic *
Cflow Ubuntu lunar *
Cflow Ubuntu mantic *
Cflow Ubuntu oracular *
Cflow Ubuntu trusty *
Cflow Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References