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In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow during the cleaning of crafted syslog msgs (received from authenticated remote agents and delivered to the analysisd processing queue by ossec-remoted).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 30, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

14.776%
(96th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-8443

GHSA ID

GHSA-wpvm-52j3-27mh

Source code

No known source code

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