Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) 1.12.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SSDP message due to a NULL pointer dereference in the functions FindServiceControlURLPath and FindServiceEventURLPath in genlib/service_table/service_table.c.

libupnp, the portable SDK for UPnP Devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SSDP message due to a NULL pointer dereference in the functions FindServiceControlURLPath and FindServiceEventURLPath in genlib/service_table/service_table.c.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.6.19+git20160116-1.2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libupnp packages.

For the detailed security status of libupnp please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libupnp

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

CVE mitre reports :

Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) 1.12.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SSDP message due to a NULL pointer dereference in the functions FindServiceControlURLPath and FindServiceEventURLPath in genlib/service_table/service_table.c.

This update for libupnp fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-13848: A NULL ptr denial of service via crafted     SSDP message was fixed (boo#1172625)

libupnp, the portable SDK for UPnP Devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SSDP message due to a NULL pointer dereference in the functions FindServiceControlURLPath and FindServiceEventURLPath in genlib/service_table/service_table.c.
This crash can be triggered by sending a malformed SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE using any of the attached files.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.19+git20141001-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libupnp packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
147187	Debian DLA-2585-1 : libupnp security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
141147	FreeBSD : upnp -- denial of service (crash) (a23871f6-059b-11eb-8758-e0d55e2a8bf9)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
138683	openSUSE Security Update : libupnp (openSUSE-2020-805)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
137247	Debian DLA-2238-1 : libupnp security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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