Bug 1922604 (CVE-2020-15690)

Summary:	CVE-2020-15690 nim: Standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for newline character
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-01-30 14:28:30 UTC

In Nim before 1.2.6, the standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for whether a message contains a newline character.

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/dc5a40f3f39c6ea672e6dc6aca7f8118a69dda99/lib/pure/asyncftpclient.nim#L145
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/compare/v1.2.4...v1.2.6

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-01-30 14:29:02 UTC

Created nim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1922605]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-01-30 14:41:37 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.