CVE-2020-6098

Name	CVE-2020-6098
Description	An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the freeDiameter functionality of freeDiameter 1.3.2. A specially crafted Diameter request can trigger a memory corruption resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
freediameter (PTS)	bullseye, sid, buster	1.2.1-7	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
freediameter	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1030
Possible fix: http://www.freediameter.net/trac/changeset/19ab8ac08a361642e7f9ec9f2657202c6f8ef9ee/freeDiameter?old=edfb2b662b91af94b2fccc48b11eec904ccab370