ubuntu-cve-2021-42917
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2021-11-01 19:15
Modified
2026-05-20 14:53
Summary
Details

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42917",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T14:53:35Z",
  "published": "2021-11-01T19:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-42917"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/20306"
    },
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    },
    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/48730b64494798705d46dfccc4029bd36d072df3"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42917"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-42917"
  ]
}



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