Debian 10: DLA-3712-1 moderate: kodi buffer overflow and DoS

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January 23, 2024

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Kodi, a media-player and entertainment hub

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow debian security patch media player

Summary

CVE-2017-5982

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Kodi allows remote
attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2E%2E%252e (encoded dot
dot slash) in the image path.

CVE-2021-42917

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi, allows attackers to cause a
denial of service due to improper length of values passed to
istream

CVE-2023-23082

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi allows attackers to
cause a denial of service due to an improper length of the value
passed to the offset argument.

CVE-2023-30207

A divide by zero issue discovered in Kodi allows attackers to
cause a denial of service via use of crafted mp3 file

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
2:17.6+dfsg1-4+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kodi packages.

For the detailed security status of kodi please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/kodi