Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202012-15
=========================================
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
======
The package minidlna before version 1.3.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution
=========
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
==========
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
=========
https://www.rootshellsecurity.net/remote-heap-corruption-bug-discovery-minidlna/
https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/git/ci/9fba41008adebc1da0f4f6c6e27ae422ace3fe4a
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28926

ArchLinux: 202012-15: minidlna: arbitrary code execution

December 17, 2020

Summary

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.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.3.0-1. # pacman -Syu "minidlna>=1.3.0-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.3.0.

References

https://www.rootshellsecurity.net/remote-heap-corruption-bug-discovery-minidlna/ https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/git/ci/9fba41008adebc1da0f4f6c6e27ae422ace3fe4a https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-28926

Severity
Package : minidlna
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1321

Workaround

None.

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