CVE-2020-25583

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 29, 2021 at 07:53 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:06 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368250, 11.4-STABLE before r368253, 12.2-RELEASE before p1, 12.1-RELEASE before p11 and 11.4-RELEASE before p5 when processing a DNSSL option, rtsold(8) decodes domain name labels per an encoding specified in RFC 1035 in which the first octet of each label contains the label's length. rtsold(8) did not validate label lengths correctly and could overflow the destination buffer.

Affected

Remediation

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-120

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