Live555 up to 1.08 Socket Connection heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Live555 up to 1.08. This impacts an unknown function of the component Socket Connection Handler. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2021-41396. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Live555 up to 1.08 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Socket Connection Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 07/12/2022. The advisory is available at lists.live555.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-41396 since 09/20/2021. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Live555

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• 1.08

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