CVE-2021-41396

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-41396
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-07-12 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-18 18:59:00 UTC
DescriptionLive555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Live555 Live555 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Live-devel] A Heap-overflow in FD_ISSET MISC lists.live555.com
www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt MISC www.live555.com
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