Security Advisory

CVE-2021-44847

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-12-13 00:53:26
Last updated 2024-08-04 04:32:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request function in DHT.c in toxcore 0.1.9 through 0.1.11 and 0.2.0 through 0.2.12 (caused by an improper length calculation during the handling of received network packets) allows remote attackers to crash the process or potentially execute arbitrary code via a network packet.