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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2015-6031

CVE-2015-6031

Published:November 02, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

Buffer overflow in the IGDstartelt function in igd_desc_parse.c in the MiniUPnP client (aka MiniUPnPc) before 1.9.20150917 allows remote UPNP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "oversized" XML element name.

Related Resources (11)

http://talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0035/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77306

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-08

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-6031

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2780-1

https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/blob/master/miniupnpc/Changelog.txt

https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/79cca974a4c2ab1199786732a67ff6d898051b78

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00122.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3379

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6031

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2780-2