Bug 1861988 (CVE-2020-6098)

Summary:	CVE-2020-6098 freeDiameter: specially crafted Diameter request leads to DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	rosset.filipe
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-07-30 05:40:54 UTC

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the freeDiameter functionality of freeDiameter 1.3.2. A specially crafted Diameter request can trigger a memory corruption resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.

References:
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1030

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-07-30 05:41:29 UTC

Created freeDiameter tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1861990]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1861989]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-07-30 07:27:54 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.