CVE-2020-12460

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x through 1.4.0-Beta1 has improper null termination in the function opendmarc_xml_parse that can result in a one-byte heap overflow in opendmarc_xml when parsing a specially crafted DMARC aggregate report. This can cause remote memory corruption when a '\0' byte overwrites the heap metadata of the next chunk and its PREV_INUSE flag.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34
Trusteddomain Opendmarc: through 1.3.2; 1.4.0-beta0, 1.4.0-beta1

References

https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDMARC/issues/64
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00026.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2D4JGHMALEJEWWG56DKR5OZB22TK7W5B/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JHDKMCZGE3W4XBP76NLI2Q7IOZHXLD4A/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KBOGOQOK3TIWWJV66MW5YWNRJAFFYGR5/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-02
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opendmarc/
https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDMARC/issues/64
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00026.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2D4JGHMALEJEWWG56DKR5OZB22TK7W5B/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JHDKMCZGE3W4XBP76NLI2Q7IOZHXLD4A/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KBOGOQOK3TIWWJV66MW5YWNRJAFFYGR5/

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