CVE-2020-28601

medium

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`5.4-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.2-3`
sid	Fixed	`5.2-3`
forky	Fixed	`5.2-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.2-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.2-3`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28601

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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