CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8443

Off-by-one Error

Published: Jan 30, 2020 | Modified: Apr 26, 2022
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow during the cleaning of crafted syslog msgs (received from authenticated remote agents and delivered to the analysisd processing queue by ossec-remoted).

Weakness

A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ossec Ossec 2.7 (including) 3.5.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References