Use-after-free in miniupnpd - CVE-2019-12106
Published: May 16, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35898
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12106
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: miniupnpd
Affected software:
miniupnpd
miniupnpd
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The updateDevice function in minissdpd.c in MiniUPnP MiniSSDPd 1.4 and 1.5 allows a remote attacker to crash the process due to a Use After Free vulnerability.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12106
Install update from vendor's website.