# CVE-2020-14315: A memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-09-16 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a bsdiff: bsdiff 4.3

## Description

A memory corruption vulnerability is present in bspatch as shipped in Colin Percival’s bsdiff tools version 4.3. Insufficient checks when handling external inputs allows an attacker to bypass the sanity checks in place and write out of a dynamically allocated buffer boundaries.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a bsdiff, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/09/2
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2020-006-bspatch/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856747

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