7.5
CVSSv3

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

<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> oss-sec mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> Barrier "software KVM switch" multiple remote security issues <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> From: Mat ...