High
Security advisory
In Bareos Director less than or equal to 16.2.10, 17.2.9, 18.2.8, and 19.2.7, a heap overflow allows a malicious client to corrupt the director's memory via oversized digest strings sent during initialization of a verify job. Disabling verify jobs mitigates the problem. This issue is also patched in Bareos versions 19.2.8, 18.2.9 and 17.2.10.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11061
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Bareos Director less than or equal to 16.2.10, 17.2.9, 18.2.8, and 19.2.7, a heap overflow allows a malicious client to corrupt the director's memory via oversized digest strings sent during initialization of a verify job. Disabling verify jobs mitigates the problem. This issue is also patched in Bareos versions 19.2.8, 18.2.9 and 17.2.10.
osv:CVE-2020-11061
Complete source record
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"references": [
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