{"id":"CVE-2026-49420","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-49420","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:38:51.317Z","title":"A host sending crafted RTSP traffic from inside a NAT gateway using libalias can overflow a stack buffer, potentially achieving remote code execution in the kernel (when using ipfw(4) NAT) or in the natd(8) process (which generally runs as the root user).","description":"The RTSP handler in libalias rewrote outgoing packets into a fixed-length stack buffer without checking whether the rewritten data fit in the buffer, or whether the result fit back in the original packet.\n\nA host sending crafted RTSP traffic from inside a NAT gateway using libalias can overflow a stack buffer, potentially achieving remote code execution in the kernel (when using ipfw(4) NAT) or in the natd(8) process (which generally runs as the root user).","published":"2026-08-19T06:17:41.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-01T20:20:13.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"secteam@freebsd.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-121"],"affected":["freebsd/freebsd"],"epss":{"score":0.00416,"percentile":0.35726,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:41.libalias.asc","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secteam@freebsd.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49420","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}