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CVE-2015-6031

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-11-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the IGDstartelt function in igd_desc_parse.c in the MiniUPnP client (aka MiniUPnPc) before 1.9.20150917 allows remote UPNP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "oversized" XML element name.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• miniupnp project miniupnpc: through 1.9; 1.9-2014-02-03, 1.9-2014-02-05, 1.9-2014-05-15, 1.9-2014-06-10, 1.9-2014-07-01, 1.9-2014-09-06 (+15)
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00122.html
• http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3379
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77306
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2780-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2780-2
• https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/blob/master/miniupnpc/Changelog.txt
• https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/79cca974a4c2ab1199786732a67ff6d898051b78
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-08
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00122.html
• http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3379

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