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CVE-2020-15117

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Fedoraproject — FedoraSymless — Synergy

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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