Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting miniupnp/miniupnp package, versions [0,1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.31% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MINIUPNPMINIUPNP-2366093
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-3985  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade miniupnp/miniupnp to version 1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The getHTTPResponse function in miniwget.c in MiniUPnP 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted headers that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

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