vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-44847: libtoxcore -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 13, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-libtoxcoreno-fix-debian-deb-package
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