CVE-2020-11864 Denial of service in n/a
A denial of service vulnerability in libEMF allows attackers to crash applications using the library, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-11864?
CVE-2020-11864 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
libEMF (aka ECMA-234 Metafile Library) through 1.0.11 allows denial of service (issue 2 of 2).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11864?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libemf Project Libemf, Opensuse Leap.
How do I fix CVE-2020-11864?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-11864 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11864 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11864, GHSA-pf4w-prfj-vwv2, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11864.