GNU Gatekeeper (gnugk) before 5.16 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in H46024Socket::ReceivedProbePacket() that allows remote…
CVE-2026-121626
GNU Gatekeeper (gnugk) before 5.16 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in H46024Socket::ReceivedProbePacket() that allows remote attackers to cause a heap over-read by sending short probe packets. Attackers can send a short application-defined RTCP packet to the media port during H.460.24 probing to read past the heap allocation and possibly crash the gatekeeper.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 3 November 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Affected
- willamowius · gnugk
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/willamowius/gnugk/commit/160aa27344ecc9a443cccaa63e8d7fa95a766610
- https://github.com/willamowius/gnugk/releases/tag/v5_16
- https://github.com/willamowius/gnugk/blob/v5_15/GkClient.cxx#L963-L990
- https://github.com/willamowius/gnugk
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnu-gatekeeper-before-5.16-out-of-bounds-read-in-h-460.24-rtcp-probe-handler
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-121626
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