Denial of Service Vulnerability in Telegram Desktop 1.3.14

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Telegram Desktop 1.3.14

CVE-2018-17231 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via an "Edit color palette" search that triggers an "index out of range" condition. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple third parties because the described attack scenario does not cross a privilege boundary

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