Integer underflow in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via…

Description

Integer underflow in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a PKT_CHAT packet with a data length less than 3, which triggers an erroneous malloc, possibly related to the Sv_HandlePacket function in sv_main.c.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• doomsday-svhandlepacket-underflow(36338) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 3084 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 28821 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 26524 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20070829 Multiple vulnerabilities in Doomsday 1.9.0-beta5.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 25483 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-200802-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 15:01 UTC.