CVE-2021-42917

Summary

CVECVE-2021-42917
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-01 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-23 07:15:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kodi Kodi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Playlist] dont use istream directly to a tinyxml structure by fuzzard · Pull Request #20306 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub MISC github.com
Merge pull request #20306 from fuzzard/fix_20305 · xbmc/xbmc@48730b6 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3712-1] kodi security update lists.debian.org
Kodi v19.0 Buffer Overflow · Issue #20305 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub MISC github.com
[Playlist] dont use istream directly to a tinyxml structure · fuzzard/xbmc@80c8138 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179436 Debian Security Update for kodi (CVE-2021-42917)
  • 6000437 Debian Security Update for kodi (DLA 3712-1)
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