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Fortinet FortiOS: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2019-17656)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2019-17656)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/12/2021
Created
04/22/2021
Added
04/21/2021
Modified
05/06/2022

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the HTTPD daemon of FortiOS 6.0.10 and below, 6.2.2 and below and FortiProxy 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.2.9 and below, 2.0.0 and below may allow an authenticated remote attacker to crash the service by sending a malformed PUT request to the server. Fortinet is not aware of any successful exploitation of this vulnerability that would lead to code execution.

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-latest

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