| Name | CVE-2021-42917 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3712-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 998419 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| kodi (PTS) | stretch | 2:17.1+dfsg1-3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:17.6+dfsg1-4+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:19.1+dfsg2-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:20.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 2:21.1+dfsg-5 | fixed |
| xbmc (PTS) | jessie | 2:13.2+dfsg1-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| kodi | source | buster | 2:17.6+dfsg1-4+deb10u1 | | DLA-3712-1 | |
| kodi | source | bullseye | 2:19.1+dfsg2-2+deb11u1 | | | |
| kodi | source | (unstable) | 2:19.3+dfsg1-1 | | | 998419 |
| xbmc | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| xbmc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - kodi <postponed> (no point in fixing this when the more severe CVE-2017-5982 is ignored)
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/20306