Advisories

MegaPing Local Buffer Overflow Denial of Service

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • MegaPing <= 1.0

CWE
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Achilles
Description
MegaPing contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized payload to the Destination Address List field in the Finger function. Attackers can paste a crafted buffer exceeding expected input limits into the vulnerable field and trigger the Start button to cause a denial of service crash.

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