CVE-2021-44847

9.8

CRITICALCVSS v3

Published

December 13, 2021

CVSS v2

7.5 HIGH

Affected

6 projects

Assigned by

MITRE

Severity scale

010

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request function in DHT.c in toxcore 0.1.9 through 0.1.11 and 0.2.0 through 0.2.12 (caused by an improper length calculation during the handling of received network packets) allows remote attackers to crash the process or potentially execute arbitrary code via a network packet.