CVE-2019-20797

HIGH 7.5CVE-2019-20797 · Published 18/05/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-20797 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting prboom-plus (prboom-plus project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
prboom-plus prboom-plus_project	`= 2.5.1.5`	No fix yet

Description

An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in i_network.c.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00027.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00028.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77J22ZEQXS5SAYZGBDJ475AKFFJNKX5L
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3WS7GRZUIHCGLFET33MGC3PEKCH37W6
logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/10/prboom1.html · Exploit
sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/252 · Third Party Advisory
sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/253 · Third Party Advisory

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