CVE-2021-41396:
Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.
CVE-2021-41396:
Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.
Among the 5 debian patches
available in version 2026.10.13-1 of the package,
we noticed the following issues:
5 patches
where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded
upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the
metadata to document its real status.
testing migrations
This package will soon be part of the auto-openssl transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it.
You can probably find supplementary information in the
debian-release
archives or in the corresponding
release.debian.org
bug.
Migration status for liblivemedia (2026.09.23-dfsg-4 to 2026.10.13-1): BLOCKED: Maybe temporary, maybe blocked but Britney is missing information (check below)
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/libl/liblivemedia.png){kind=link}