CVE-2020-15117
In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving a kMsgHelloBack packet with a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295) if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was verified that this issue does not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of the Server is more than 4GB.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| symless / synergy | - | 1.12.0 |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 32 | 32.x |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 33 | 33.x |
- https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/commit/0a97c2be0da2d0df25cb86dfd642429e7a8bea39
- https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/security/advisories/GHSA-chfm-333q-gfpp
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFDEQED64YLWQK2TF73EMXZDYX7YT2DD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAQYCMBWNVCIEM27NPIKK3DGJCNBYLAK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFDEQED64YLWQK2TF73EMXZDYX7YT2DD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAQYCMBWNVCIEM27NPIKK3DGJCNBYLAK/
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