CVE-2026-71979

Published: Aug 17, 2026Modified: Aug 17, 2026

8.7

Vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XShow less

Source: disclosure@vulncheck.com (Secondary)

Description

INDI (Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface) indiserver through 2.2.4.2, fixed in commit 96bbd7f, contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the daemon by sending malformed XML with mismatched tags whose names exceed 1024 bytes. Attackers can send a single TCP packet on port 7624 with mismatched XML tags to trigger an unbounded sprintf() write into a fixed 1024-byte stack buffer in MsgQueue.cpp, terminating the daemon and disrupting all active client and driver sessions.

Related CWEs

CWE-121

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

References (4)

https://github.com/indilib/indi/commit/96bbd7f564bbb128a129019e44eadd40dd49cff9

Source: disclosure@vulncheck.com

https://github.com/indilib/indi/issues/2472

Source: disclosure@vulncheck.com

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/indi-indiserver-stack-buffer-overflow-via-xml-tag-parsing

Source: disclosure@vulncheck.com

https://github.com/indilib/indi/issues/2472

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

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