CVE-2021-44847

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request function in DHT.c in toxcore 0.1.9 through 0.1.11 and 0.2.0 through 0.2.12 (caused by an improper length calculation during the handling of received network packets) allows remote attackers to crash the process or potentially execute arbitrary code via a network packet.

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-2021-44847

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:0.2.13-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.2.13-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed0.2.13-1
debian debiansidfixed0.2.13-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.2.13-1

References

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