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Arch Linux: 202012-15 High Severity: Minidlna Arbitrary Code Execution

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The package minidlna before version 1.3.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. 
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202012-15
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Severity: High
Date    : 2020-12-09
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-28926
Package : minidlna
Type    : arbitrary code execution
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1321

Summary
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The package minidlna before version 1.3.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 1.3.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "minidlna>=1.3.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.3.0.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
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ReadyMedia (aka MiniDLNA) before versions 1.3.0 allows remote code
execution. Sending a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the miniDLNA
service using HTTP chunked encoding can lead to a signedness bug
resulting in a buffer overflow in calls to memcpy/memmove.

Impact
=====
An attacker on the local network can execute arbitrary code via a
malicious UPnP HTTP request.

References
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https://www.rootshellsecurity.net/rootshell-discover-remote-heap-corruption-bug/

https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28926