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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-37311

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fcitx5 5.0.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted message to the application's listening port.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:51 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-37311

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Feb 2023, 18:15 UTC

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fcitx5 5.0.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted message to the application's listening port.

osv:CVE-2021-37311
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:51.065959811Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://fcitx-im.org",
        "https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/pull/308"
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