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CVE-2016-8863

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the create_url_list function in gena/gena_device.c in Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a valid URI followed by an invalid one in the CALLBACK header of an SUBSCRIBE request.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Libupnp Project Libupnp: through 1.6.20

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92849
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/bugs/133/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92849
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/bugs/133/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10

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