CVE-2026-49420 (GCVE-0-2026-49420)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-19 05:20
Modified
2026-08-20 03:55
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
The RTSP handler in libalias rewrote outgoing packets into a fixed-length stack buffer without checking whether the rewritten data fit in the buffer, or whether the result fit back in the original packet. A host sending crafted RTSP traffic from inside a NAT gateway using libalias can overflow a stack buffer, potentially achieving remote code execution in the kernel (when using ipfw(4) NAT) or in the natd(8) process (which generally runs as the root user).
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeBSD FreeBSD Version: 15.1-RELEASE
Version: 15.0-RELEASE
Version: 14.4-RELEASE
Version: 14.3-RELEASE
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