CVE-2020-28601

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 3.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2021-03-04

Last modified

2025-04-23

Weaknesses

CWE-125, CWE-129

Affected products

• Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (Cgal)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00002.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00011.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4J344OKKDLPRN422OYRR4…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NB5SF5OJR2DSV7CC6U7FVW…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-34
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1225