Out-of-bounds write in Teeworlds - CVE-2019-10878
Published: August 26, 2019
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
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Fedora
teeworlds
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10878
teeworlds - addressed in versions 0.7.3.1-1.fc30, 0.7.3.1-2.fc30