CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41396

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

Affected configurations

• live555 live555 (<= 1.08)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References