Out-of-bounds write in Teeworlds - CVE-2019-10878

 

Out-of-bounds write in Teeworlds - CVE-2019-10878

Published: August 26, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20392
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10878
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input in the "CDataFileReader::GetData()" and "CDataFileReader::ReplaceData()" and related functions in engine/shared/datafile.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds pointer write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


Affected software

Teeworlds
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Fedora
teeworlds

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10878

Install updates from vendor's website.

Teeworlds - update to 0.7.3.1
teeworlds - addressed in versions 0.7.3.1-1.fc30, 0.7.3.1-2.fc30

External References

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