CVE-2020-8244 PUBLISHED

A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.

EPSS 1.03% · 77.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.03%
77.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSnode-bl1.1.2-1, 1.1.2-1ubuntu1, 0
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSnode-bl0, 0.9.3-1
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSnode-bl0, 1.1.2-3, 4.0.0-2

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