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Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-29394): dlt-daemon vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 30, 2020
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow in the dlt_filter_load function in dlt_common.c from dlt-daemon through 2.18.5 (GENIVI Diagnostic Log and Trace) allows arbitrary code execution because fscanf is misused (no limit on the number of characters to be read in the format argument).

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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