High severity · published Mar 11, 2021
CVE-2020-36277
Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a denial of service (application crash) via an incorrect left shift in pixConvert2To8 in pixconv.c
7.5
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a denial of service (application crash) via an incorrect left shift in pixConvert2To8 in pixconv.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
LE
Leptonica · Leptonica
before 1.80.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36277
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36277
Exploit
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=21997
Patch
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/compare/1.79.0...1.80.0
Patch
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/pull/499
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00037.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQUEA2X6UTH4DMYCMZAWE2QQLN5YANUA/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RD5AIWHWE334HGYZJR2U3I3JYKSSO2LW/
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