CVE-2020-13397 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2020-13397?

CVE-2020-13397 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 22 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability has been detected in security_fips_decrypt in libfreerdp/core/security.c due to an uninitialized value.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13397?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freerdp Freerdp, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13397?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-13397 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13397 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-NW51905, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13397, GHSA-g35v-3fjw-w5pj, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13397.