CVE-2020-24388 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2020-24388?

CVE-2020-24388 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 19 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the _send_secure_msg() function of yubihsm-shell through 2.0.2. The function does not validate the embedded length field of a message received from the device. This could lead to an oversized memcpy() call that will crash the running process. This could be used by an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24388?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Yubico Yubihsm-Shell.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24388?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-24388 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2020-24388 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24388 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rfxf-4r4p-5x86.