What is CVE-2019-12968?

CVE-2019-12968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Drdteam Doomseeker, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-06-26.

How severe is CVE-2019-12968?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Drdteam Doomseeker

CVE-2019-12968

A vulnerability was found in the Sonic Robo Blast 2 (SRB2) plugin (EP_Versions 9 to 11 inclusive) distributed with Doomseeker 1.1 and 1.2. Affected plugin versions did not discard IP packets with an unnaturally long response length from a Sonic Robo Blast 2 master server, allowing a remote attacker to cause a potential crash / denial of service in Doomseeker. The issue has been remediated in the Doomseeker 1.3 release with source code patches to the SRB2 plugin.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.026 (83.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Drdteam Doomseeker — versions 1.1, 1.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12968?: CVE-2019-12968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Drdteam Doomseeker, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-06-26.
How severe is CVE-2019-12968?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.