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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-29363

An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.23.6 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by p11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE, the receiving entity may not allocate sufficient length for the buffer to store the deserialized value.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-29363

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Dec 2020, 14:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.23.6 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by p11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE, the receiving entity may not allocate sufficient length for the buffer to store the deserialized value.

osv:CVE-2020-29363
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-29363",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.23.6 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by p11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE, the receiving entity may not allocate sufficient length for the buffer to store the deserialized value.",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384242,
  "published_at": "2020-12-16T14:15:12.84+00:00"
}