CVE-2021-42917 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Kodi

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
KodiDebian Kodi
Timeline
PublishedNov 1
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDkodi/kodi< 19.0
▶debiandebian/kodi< kodi 2:19.3+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debiankodi/kodi< 2:19.1+dfsg2-2+deb11u1+2

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9856-v5xm-mr4c: Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19↗2022-05-24
▶
OSV
CVE-2021-42917: Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19↗2021-11-01
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2021-42917: kodi - Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause...↗2021
▶