Advisories

Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 - Denial of Service

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • Telegram Desktop 2.9.2

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS
4.6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Aryan Chehreghani
Description
Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

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