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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2013-2139

Low
2.6/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in srtp.c in libsrtp in srtp 1.4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a length inconsistency in the crypto_policy_set_from_profile_for_rtp and srtp_protect functions.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published