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CVSSv2

CVE-2021-42074

Published: 08/11/2021 Updated: 09/11/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in Barrier prior to 2.3.4. An unauthenticated attacker can cause a segmentation fault in the barriers component (aka the server-side implementation of Barrier) by quickly opening and closing TCP connections while sending a Hello message for each TCP session.

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Vendor Advisories

A security issue has been found in Barrier before version 234 When quickly opening and closing socket connections while sending a Hello message for each session then this will lead to a segmentation fault (probably use after free) This allows for a simple way to DoS the barrier server for an unauthenticated remote client Further research of th ...

Mailing Lists

Hello list, recently the Barrier project [1] published new releases that address a couple of security issues I reported to them Following is the full review report I shared with upstream on 2021-07-30 Attached to this email is a tarball containing reproducer scripts that are mentioned in the report [1]: githubcom/debauchee/barrier I ...