CVE-2021-41396 (GCVE-0-2021-41396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-11 11:38 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:08
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Summary
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.
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