CVE-2021-26843

Published Feb 7, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in sthttpd through 2.27.1. On systems where the strcpy function is implemented with memcpy, the de_dotdot function may cause a Denial-of-Service (daemon crash) due to overlapping memory ranges being passed to memcpy. This can triggered with an HTTP GET request for a crafted filename. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-10671, but occurs in a different part of the de_dotdot function.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-13627 An issue was discovered in sthttpd through 2.27.1. On systems where the strcpy function is implemented with memcpy, the de_dotdot function may cause a Denial-of-Service (daemon crash) due to overlapping memory ranges being passed to memcpy. This can triggered with an HTTP GET request for a crafted filename. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-10671, but occurs in a different part of the de_dotdot function.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 8:33 PM
Reserved
Feb 7, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 7, 2021, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:43 AM