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CVE-2023-42801

HIGH
7.6
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

Moonlight-common-c contains the core GameStream client code shared between Moonlight clients. Moonlight-common-c is vulnerable to buffer overflow starting in commit f57bd745b4cbed577ea654fad4701bea4d38b44c. A malicious game streaming server could exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability to crash a moonlight client. Achieving RCE is possible but unlikely, due to stack canaries in use by modern compiler toolchains. The published binaries for official clients Qt, Android, iOS/tvOS, and Embedded are built with stack canaries, but some unofficial clients may not use stack canaries. This vulnerability takes place after the pairing process, so it requires the client to be tricked into pairing to a malicious host. It is not possible to perform using a man-in-the-middle due to public key pinning that takes place during the pairing process. The bug was addressed in commit b2497a3918a6d79808d9fd0c04734786e70d5954.

How to fix

Remediation Available
moonlightNVD
Affected:< 0.10.23Fixed in:0.10.23CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
Affected:< 12.0Fixed in:12.0CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
Affected:< 9.0.0Fixed in:9.0.0CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
moonlight-common-cNVD
Affected:>= 2016-10-05, < 2023-10-06Fixed in:2023-10-06CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
moonlight embeddedNVD
Affected:< 2.6.1Fixed in:2.6.1CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
moonlight switchNVD
Affected:< 0.13.4Fixed in:0.13.4CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD
moonlight tvNVD
Affected:< 1.6.0Fixed in:1.6.0CVE-2023-42801derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.79%probability of exploitation in 30 days
52ndpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 52% of all known CVEs.

References

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CVE-2011-4862High10.095%-Fix
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