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CVE-2026-71979

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.48% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-08-17 · Last synced 2026-09-16

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The vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit a stack buffer overflow in the INDI indiserver, leading to a denial of service by crashing the daemon through malformed XML payloads. This can disrupt all active client and driver sessions by sending a single TCP packet to port 7624. Organizations using affected versions of the INDI indiserver should prioritize patching to mitigate this high-severity risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-71979
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.48%

Original NVD Description

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.