CVE-2020-28926 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2020-28926?

CVE-2020-28926 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Nov 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ReadyMedia (aka MiniDLNA) before versions 1.3.0 allows remote code execution. Sending a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the miniDLNA service using HTTP chunked encoding can lead to a signedness bug resulting in a buffer overflow in calls to memcpy/memmove.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-28926?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Readymedia Project Readymedia.

How do I fix CVE-2020-28926?

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-2020-28926 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28926 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28926, GHSA-gvj3-gg8w-3vrm, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28926.