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CVE-2023-42801 — Moonlight-common-c contains the core GameStream client code shared between Moonl

Moonlight-common-c contains the core GameStream client code shared between Moonlight clients. Moonlight-common-c is vulnerable to buffer overflow starting in commit f57bd745b4cbed577ea654fad4701bea4d38b44c. A malicious game streaming server could exploit a buffer overflow vulnera

CVSS
7.6 HIGH
EPSS
36.00% (top 42.10%)
CWE
CWE-120
Published
2023-12-14T17:02:04.647Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T19:30:24.310Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Moonlight-common-c contains the core GameStream client code shared between Moonlight clients. Moonlight-common-c is vulnerable to buffer overflow starting in commit f57bd745b4cbed577ea654fad4701bea4d38b44c. A malicious game streaming server could exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability to crash a moonlight client. Achieving RCE is possible but unlikely, due to stack canaries in use by modern…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
moonlight-streammoonlightcommon-c — >= f57bd745b4cbed577ea654fad4701bea4d38b44c, < b2497a3918a6d79808d9fd0c04734786e70d5954

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

05Technical details

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

06Detection signatures

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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

09References

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