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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8252: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 18, 2020
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The implementation of realpath in libuv < 10.22.1, < 12.18.4, and < 14.9.0 used within Node.js incorrectly determined the buffer size which can result in a buffer overflow if the resolved path is longer than 256 bytes.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejsalpine-linux-upgrade-libuv
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