CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-71979
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — 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:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-121
Description
INDI (Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface) indiserver through 2.2.4.2, fixed in commit 96bbd7f, contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the daemon by sending malformed XML with mismatched tags whose names exceed 1024 bytes. Attackers can send a single TCP packet on port 7624 with mismatched XML tags to trigger an unbounded sprintf() write into a fixed 1024-byte stack buffer in MsgQueue.cpp, terminating the daemon and disrupting all active client and driver sessions.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://github.com/indilib/indi/commit/96bbd7f564bbb128a129019e44eadd40dd49cff9 github.com
- https://github.com/indilib/indi/issues/2472 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/indi-indiserver-stack-buffer-overflow-via-xml-tag-parsing www.vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/indilib/indi/issues/2472 github.com