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etcd — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15106

In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.

Products
etcd
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
3.3.25+dfsg-5
CVEs
CVE-2020-15106
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15106

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Aug 2020, 19:15 UTC

In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15106

etcd

Fixed versions: 3.3.25+dfsg-5

etcd

Fixed versions: 3.3.25+dfsg-5

etcd

Fixed versions: 3.3.25+dfsg-5

Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:00:23.621858972Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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      ],
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        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15106"
      ]
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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