CVE-2020-8859

NameCVE-2020-8859
DescriptionThis vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of ELOG Electronic Logbook 3.1.4-283534d. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of HTTP parameters. A crafted request can trigger the dereference of a null pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition. Was ZDI-CAN-10115.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3014-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
elog (PTS)jessie2.9.2+2014.05.11git44800a7-2+deb8u2vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch3.1.2-1-1+deb9u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
elogsourcejessie(unfixed)end-of-life
elogsourcestretch3.1.2-1-1+deb9u1DLA-3014-1
elogsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/69114
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-252/
https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog/commits/033e292301fa569738b20768b8d1f1d7d0bc1ca7
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