Medium
Security advisory
Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42917
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.
osv:CVE-2021-42917
Complete source record
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