CVE-2021-42074 (GCVE-0-2021-42074)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-08 03:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in Barrier before 2.3.4. An unauthenticated attacker can cause a segmentation fault in the barriers component (aka the server-side implementation of Barrier) by quickly opening and closing TCP connections while sending a Hello message for each TCP session.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
2 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/02/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases/tag… | x_refsource_MISC |
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