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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-15471

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-15471

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jul 2020, 11:15 UTC

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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