CVE-2021-42917 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2021-11-01

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kodi:kodi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3712-1	kodi security update

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00266.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/fuzzard/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/48730b64494798705d46dfccc4029bd36d072df3
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/20306
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00009.html

History

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Kodi Kodi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-11-18T20:46:55.993Z

Reserved: 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42917

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:47:11.785Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-01T19:15:07.910

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:28:18.237

Link: CVE-2021-42917

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-120

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