CVE-2021-38380: LIVE555

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Live555 through 1.08 mishandles huge requests for the same MP3 stream, leading to recursion and s stack-based buffer over-read. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

Affected products

• LIVE555 LIVE555: before 2021.08.04 (fixed in 2021.08.04)

Published 2021-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.