vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-15694: nim -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 14, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient fails to properly validate the server response. For example, httpClient.get().contentLength() does not raise any error if a malicious server provides a negative Content-Length.

Solution

debian-upgrade-nim
Title
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