VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-6031

medium
Published 2015-11-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the IGDstartelt function in igd_desc_parse.c in the MiniUPnP client (aka MiniUPnPc) before 1.9.20150917 allows remote UPNP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "oversized" XML element name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.9.20140610-2.1
sid Fixed 1.9.20140610-2.1
forky Fixed 1.9.20140610-2.1
bullseye Fixed 1.9.20140610-2.1
bookworm Fixed 1.9.20140610-2.1
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
miniupnp_projectminiupnpc{"endIncluding":"1.9"}
miniupnp_projectminiupnpc1.9

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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