Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Wind River VxWorks Memory Allocator

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Wind River VxWorks Memory Allocator

CVE-2020-28895 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

In Wind River VxWorks, memory allocator has a possible overflow in calculating the memory block's size to be allocated by calloc(). As a result, the actual memory allocated is smaller than the buffer size specified by the arguments, leading to memory corruption.

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