Bug 1939200 (CVE-2020-36278) - CVE-2020-36278 leptonica: heap-based buffer overflow in findNextBorderPixel in ccbord.c
Summary: CVE-2020-36278 leptonica: heap-based buffer overflow in findNextBorderPixel i...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-36278
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1939203 1939201 1939202 1942946
Blocks: 1939215
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-03-15 17:50 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-10-28 14:08 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in leptonica. A heap-based buffer over-read in the findNextBorderPixel function in ccbord.c file may allow an attacker to read data from an application using leptonica. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 14:08:02 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-15 17:50:55 UTC 
Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a heap-based buffer over-read in findNextBorderPixel in ccbord.c.

Reference:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=23433

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/8d6e1755518cfb98536d6c3daf0601f226d16842
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-15 17:51:19 UTC 
Created leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1939203]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1939201]


Created mingw-leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1939202]
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