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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1805-1 minissdpd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 May 2019

Affected Packages:

minissdpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12106.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a use after free vulnerability in minissdpd, a network device discovery daemon. A remote attacker could use this to crash the process.

• The updateDevice function in minissdpd.c in MiniUPnP MiniSSDPd 1.4 and 1.5 allows a remote attacker to crash the process due to a Use After Free vulnerability.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.20130907-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your minissdpd packages.

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