High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in i_network.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20797
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in i_network.c.
osv:CVE-2019-20797
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77J22ZEQXS5SAYZGBDJ475AKFFJNKX5L/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3WS7GRZUIHCGLFET33MGC3PEKCH37W6/",
"https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/252/",
"https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/253/",
"https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/10/prboom1.html"
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