Memory corruption in MiniUPnP - CVE-2017-1000494

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10428

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000494

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition no the target system.

The weakness exists due to uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in NameValueParserEndElt (upnpreplyparse.c). A remote attacker can trigger segmentation fault and memory corruption to cause the service to crash.

MiniUPnP
Ubuntu

Update to version 2.0.

• https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/issues/268
• https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/7aeb624b44f86d335841242ff427433190e7168a

• Ubuntu update for MiniUPnP