| Name | CVE-2019-20797 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5. There is a buffer overflow in client and server code responsible for handling received UDP packets, as demonstrated by I_SendPacket or I_SendPacketTo in i_network.c. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 961031 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| prboom-plus (PTS) | bullseye | 2:2.6um-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| prboom-plus | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| prboom-plus | source | (unstable) | 2:2.5.1.7um+git82-1 | | | 961031 |
Notes
[buster] - prboom-plus <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - prboom-plus <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - prboom-plus <end-of-life> (games are not supported)
https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/10/prboom1.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/252/
https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/253/