cve/2021/CVE-2021-21815.md

CVE-2021-21815

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the command-line-parsing HandleFileArg functionality of AT&T Labs' Xmill 0.7. Within the function HandleFileArg the argument filepattern is under control of the user who passes it in from the command line. filepattern is passed directly to strcpy copying the path provided by the user into a staticly sized buffer without any length checks resulting in a stack-buffer overflow. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

POC

Reference

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1280

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.