CVE-2020-36280 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2020-36280?

CVE-2020-36280 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a heap-based buffer over-read in pixReadFromTiffStream, related to tiffio.c.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36280?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Leptonica Leptonica.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36280?

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-2020-36280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36280 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36280, GHSA-rgpm-6p39-f6wx, JLSEC-2026-208, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36280.