CVE-2026-121969: high-severity vulnerability in quozl netrek-client-cow
netrek-client-cow through 3.3.3 Stack Buffer Overflow via handleSMessage
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.3%
netrek-client-cow through 3.3.3 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in handleSMessage() in short.c that allows malicious servers to overflow a 100-byte stack buffer by sending oversized SP_S_MESSAGE packets. A malicious Netrek server or man-in-the-middle on the plaintext TCP connection can send overlong or unterminated message bodies to write server-controlled bytes onto the stack and crash the client.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
quozl · netrek-client-cowRelated CVEs — quozl netrek-client-cow
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
https://github.com/quozl/netrek-client-cowhttps://github.com/quozl/netrek-client-cow/blob/3.3.3/short.c#L949https://github.com/quozl/netrek-client-cow/commit/fb322e74abee3b0b76a9c5a31df6aab5585d3127https://github.com/quozl/netrek-client-cow/issues/11https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netrek-client-cow-through-3.3.3-stack-buffer-overflow-via-handlesmessage