CVE-2021-42917
5.5 MEDIUMBuffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values pas...
Published: 2021-11-01 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-120
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| kodi | kodi |
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.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42917
- [Patch]https://github.com/fuzzard/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237
- [Patch]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/48730b64494798705d46dfccc4029bd36d072df3
- [Exploit reference]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
- [Patch]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/20306
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00009.html
- [Patch]https://github.com/fuzzard/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237
- [Patch]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/48730b64494798705d46dfccc4029bd36d072df3
- [Exploit reference]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
- [Patch]https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/20306
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00009.html
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