Bug#998419: kodi: CVE-2021-42917

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: kodi
Version: 2:19.3+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for kodi.

CVE-2021-42917[0]:
| Buffer overflow vulnerability in Kodi xbmc up to 19.0, allows
| attackers to cause a denial of service due to improper length of
| values passed to istream.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42917
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42917
[1] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/20305
[2] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/80c8138c09598e88b4ddb6dbb279fa193bbb3237

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore