CVE-2020-6582

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.6%

Published: 3/16/2020Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2020-6582DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6582

Description

Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, as demonstrated by interpretation of a small negative number as a large positive number during a bzero call.

Affected packages (2)

Alpine/nrpefrom 0, < 4.0.0-r0
Debian/nagios-nrpefrom 0, < 4.0.0-1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-6582
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6582