CVE-2020-6097

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

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the atftpd daemon functionality of atftp 0.7.git20120829-3.1+b1. A specially crafted sequence of RRQ-Multicast requests trigger an assert() call resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a sequence of malicious packets to trigger this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6097.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6097

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-24

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.7.git20120829-3.2
debian debianbullseyefixed0.7.git20120829-3.2
debian debianforkyfixed0.7.git20120829-3.2
debian debiansidfixed0.7.git20120829-3.2
debian debiantrixiefixed0.7.git20120829-3.2
arch archfixed0.7.2-3
suse slesaffected

References

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