Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15117
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-15117
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15117",
"method": "structured",
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"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-15117",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-15117",
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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"modified": "2026-10-17T02:45:28.921544307Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"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/",
"https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/security/advisories/GHSA-chfm-333q-gfpp",
"https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/commit/0a97c2be0da2d0df25cb86dfd642429e7a8bea39"
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"vendor_product": "symless:synergy",
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{
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"extracted_events": [
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{
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},
{
"source": "DESCRIPTION",
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"related_cves": [
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 350172,
"published_at": "2020-07-15T18:15:36.333+00:00"
}