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CVE-2020-28895 Detail

Description

In Wind River VxWorks, memory allocator has a possible overflow in calculating the memory block's size to be allocated by calloc(). As a result, the actual memory allocated is smaller than the buffer size specified by the arguments, leading to memory corruption.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score matches with CNA score
CNA:  MITRE
Base Score:  7.3 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L


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Hyperlink Resource
https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=cve&on=view&id=CVE-2020-28895 Vendor Advisory 
https://support2.windriver.com/index.php?page=defects&on=view&id=V7LIBC-1327 Permissions Required 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-28895
NVD Published Date:
02/03/2021
NVD Last Modified:
05/12/2022
Source:
MITRE