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CVE-2021-41396

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

Affected products

• Live555: through 1.08

References

• http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2021-September/021994.html
• http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt
• http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2021-September/021994.html
• http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt

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