# CVE-2019-20797: An issue was discovered in e6y prboom-plus 2.5.1.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-05-17 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/252/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/prboom-plus/bugs/253/
- https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/10/prboom1.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77J22ZEQXS5SAYZGBDJ475AKFFJNKX5L/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3WS7GRZUIHCGLFET33MGC3PEKCH37W6/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00028.html

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