In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving a kMsgHelloBack packet with a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295) if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was verified that this issue does not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of the Server is more than 4GB.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving a kMsgHelloBack packet with     a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295) if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was     verified that this issue does not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of     the Server is more than 4GB. (CVE-2020-15117)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Upstream update to v1.12.0-stable Security fix for CVE-2020-15117

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
260791	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-15117	Nessus	Misc.	medium
144347	Fedora 32 : 1:synergy (2020-2ef60a0580)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
144324	Fedora 33 : 1:synergy (2020-cc19e88a1f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2020-15117

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Tenable Plugins

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