Critical
Security advisory
In nDPI through 3.2, the packet parsing code is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in ndpi_parse_packet_line_info in lib/ndpi_main.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15471
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In nDPI through 3.2, the packet parsing code is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in ndpi_parse_packet_line_info in lib/ndpi_main.c.
osv:CVE-2020-15471
Complete source record
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