CVE-2016-20041: Yasr Screen Reader

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Yasr 0.6.9-5 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -p parameter. Attackers can invoke yasr with a crafted payload containing junk data, shellcode, and a return address to overwrite the stack and trigger code execution.

Affected products

• Yasr Yasr Screen Reader: version 0.6.9-5 only

Published 2026-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.