vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-2921: smplayer -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 7, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause an integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow and resulting in denial of service and potential remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over network to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

debian-upgrade-smplayer
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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