CVE-2020-28928

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In musl libc through 1.2.1, wcsnrtombs mishandles particular combinations of destination buffer size and source character limit, as demonstrated by an invalid write access (buffer overflow).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28928

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-29

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.2.1-2
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.2-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.2-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.