CVE-2015-6031: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the IGDstartelt function in igd_desc_parse.c in the MiniUPnP client (aka MiniUPnPc) before 1.9.20150917 allows remote UPNP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "oversized" XML element name.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Miniupnp Project Miniupnpc: up to and including 1.9; version 1.9 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.