CVE-2021-42917

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of values passed to istream.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42917

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed19.3-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2:19.3+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:19.1+dfsg2-2+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2:19.3+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed2:19.3+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:19.3+dfsg1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.