An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in i_network.c.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code     responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in     i_network.c. (CVE-2019-20797)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for prboom-plus fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-20797: Fixed a buffer overflow in client and     server code responsible for handling received UDP     packets (boo#1171974)

Patch for CVE-2019-20797

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
257992	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-20797	Nessus	Misc.	high
138685	openSUSE Security Update : prboom-plus (openSUSE-2020-807)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
137125	Fedora 32 : prboom-plus (2020-fe80f1f388)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
137112	Fedora 31 : prboom-plus (2020-3f9a846b40)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-20797

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high