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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-29362

An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.21.1 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer over-read has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by thep11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a byte array through a serialized PKCS#11 function call, the receiving entity may allow the reading of up to 4 bytes of memory past the heap allocation.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-29362

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Dec 2020, 14:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.21.1 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer over-read has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by thep11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a byte array through a serialized PKCS#11 function call, the receiving entity may allow the reading of up to 4 bytes of memory past the heap allocation.

osv:CVE-2020-29362
Complete source record
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        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00002.html",
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