Bug 2528498 - CVE-2026-71979 libindi: INDI indiserver: Denial of Service via malformed XML tag parsing [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-71979 libindi: INDI indiserver: Denial of Service via malformed XML ...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libindi
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Mattia Verga
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-71979
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Reported: 2026-09-04 13:46 UTC by Samuele Negrini
Modified: 2026-09-04 13:46 UTC (History)
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Description Samuele Negrini 2026-09-04 13:46:16 UTC
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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.


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