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Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVE-2020-11104

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in USC iLab cereal. Serialization of an (initialized) C/C++ long double variable into a BinaryArchive or PortableBinaryArchive leaks several bytes of stack or heap memory, from which sensitive information (such as memory layout or private keys) can be gleaned if the archive is distributed outside of a trusted context.

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CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

The software uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published