Detections
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CVE-2018-25021

high

Description

The TCP Server module in toxcore before 0.2.8 doesn't free the TCP priority queue under certain conditions, which allows a remote attacker to exhaust the system's memory, causing a denial of service (DoS).

References

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/pull/1216

https://blog.tox.chat/2018/10/memory-leak-bug-and-new-toxcore-release-fixing-it/

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/1214

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-13

Updated: 2022-02-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00976