Stack-based Buffer Overflow in Samsung SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250 Firmware 0.20.17

CVE-2018-3916 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the retrieval of database fields in the video-core HTTP server of the Samsung SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250 - Firmware version 0.20.17. The strcpy call overflows the destination buffer, which has a size of 136 bytes. An attacker can send an arbitrarily long 'directory' value in order to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

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