vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-6097)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Sep 10, 2020 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 10, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the atftpd daemon functionality of atftp 0.7.2. A specially crafted sequence of RRQ-Multicast requests trigger an assert() call resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a sequence of malicious packets to trigger this vulnerability.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2020-6097
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-6097
- URL-http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00058.html
- URL-https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00014.html
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-24
- URL-https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1029
- CWE-617
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