# CVE-2023-42800: Buffer overflow due to use of \`strcpy\` in \`performRtspHandshake\`

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-12-14 · Updated: 2024-11-27

## Affected

- moonlight-stream moonlight-common-c: version range not reported

## Description

Moonlight-common-c contains the core GameStream client code shared between Moonlight clients. Moonlight-common-c is vulnerable to buffer overflow starting in commit 50c0a51b10ecc5b3415ea78c21d96d679e2288f9 due to unmitigated usage of unsafe C functions and improper bounds checking. A malicious game streaming server could exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability to crash a moonlight client, or achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the client (with insufficient exploit mitigations or if mitigations can be bypassed). The bug was addressed in commit 24750d4b748fefa03d09fcfd6d45056faca354e0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on moonlight-stream moonlight-common-c, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-common-c/security/advisories/GHSA-4927-23jw-rq62
- https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-common-c/commit/24750d4b748fefa03d09fcfd6d45056faca354e0
- https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-common-c/commit/50c0a51b10ecc5b3415ea78c21d96d679e2288f9
- https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-common-c/blob/2bb026c763fc18807d7e4a93f918054c488f84e1/src/RtspConnection.c#L796

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