Memory corruption in MiniUPnP - CVE-2017-1000494
Published: February 8, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10428
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000494
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: miniupnpd
Affected software:
MiniUPnP
MiniUPnP
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-1000494
Update to version 2.0.