PT-2019-10454 · Boa · Boa

Tt33415366 · Published 2019-10-11 · Updated 2019-10-16 · CVE-2018-21028

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Boa versions prior to 0.94.14rc21

Description The issue allows remote attackers to trigger a memory leak due to missing calls to the free function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.94.14rc21, update to a version that includes the necessary calls to the free function to prevent memory leaks.

Fix

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-21028

Affected Products

Boa

References · 4

• https://github.com/gpg/boa/pull/1/commits/e139b87835994d007fbd64eead6c1455d7b8cf4e · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-21028 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21028 · Security Note
• https://github.com/gpg/boa/pull/1 · Note