CVE-2012-5959: Portable SDK For Upnp Project Portable SDK For Upnp

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 75.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the unique_service_name function in ssdp/ssdp_server.c in the SSDP parser in the portable SDK for UPnP Devices (aka libupnp, formerly the Intel SDK for UPnP devices) before 1.6.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long UDN (aka uuid) field within a string that contains a :: (colon colon) in a UDP packet.

Affected products

• Portable SDK For Upnp Project Portable SDK For Upnp: up to and including 1.6.17; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; …

Published 2013-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.