CVE-2018-4013

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP packet-parsing functionality of the LIVE555 RTSP server library version 0.92. A specially crafted packet can cause a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in code execution. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Live555 Media Server: 0.92

References

http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2018-October/021071.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00020.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0684
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4343
http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2018-October/021071.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00020.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0684
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4343

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