CVE-2023-23082 — A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi Home Theater Software up to 19

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi Home Theater Software up to 19.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to an improper length of the value passed to the offset argument.

01What is this vulnerability?

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi Home Theater Software up to 19.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to an improper length of the value passed to the offset argument.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T10:28:39.937Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/22377
• github.com — https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/8c2aafb6d4987833803e037c923aaf83f9ff41e1
• github.com — https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22380
• github.com — https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22380/commits/00fec1dbdd1df827872c7b55ad930596…
• github.com — https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22380/commits/7e5f9fbf9aaa3540aab35e7504036855…
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00009.html