CVE-2021-44847

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request function in DHT.c in toxcore 0.1.9 through 0.1.11 and 0.2.0 through 0.2.12 (caused by an improper length calculation during the handling of received network packets) allows remote attackers to crash the process or potentially execute arbitrary code via a network packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.2.13-1
sid Fixed 0.2.13-1
forky Fixed 0.2.13-1
bullseye Affected
bookworm Fixed 0.2.13-1
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 1:0.2.13-1

References

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

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