Resource Allocation Without LimitsWeakness · CWE-770

CVE-2025-62672

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-10-19
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
rplay through 3.3.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This occurs in memcpy in the RPLAY_DATA case in rplay_unpack in librplay/rplay.c, potentially reachable via packet data with no authentication.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

The rplay daemon through version 3.3.2 contains a memory corruption vulnerability in the RPLAY_DATA case within the rplay_unpack function in librplay/rplay.c. The memcpy call uses untrusted length/data from incoming packets without proper bounds validation, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to send specially crafted packets that cause a SIGSEGV crash or potentially achieve code execution.

MitigationImplement proper bounds checking on packet length fields before the memcpy call, validate that the source data size does not exceed the destination buffer size, and consider adding authentication for remote packet processing if this is a network service.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

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

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Check if rplay daemon is installed
    Run 'dpkg -l | grep rplay' (Debian) or 'rpm -qa | grep rplay' (RHEL) or 'which rplayd' to find the rplay package or daemon binary
    Affected if rplay is installed and the version is 3.3.2 or lower
  2. Determine the installed rplay version
    Run 'rplayd -v' or check the package version with 'dpkg -s rplay' / 'rpm -qi rplay' and compare the version number to 3.3.2
    Affected if The installed version is 3.3.2 or any version lower than 3.3.2 (the vulnerability affects versions through 3.3.2)
  3. Verify if rplay daemon is running and exposed to the network
    Run 'ps aux | grep rplayd' to check if the daemon is running, then run 'netstat -tlnp | grep rplay' or 'ss -tlnp | grep rplay' to see which network ports the daemon is listening on
    Affected if rplayd is running and listening on a network-facing port (the vulnerability is exploitable via remote unauthenticated packets)
  4. Confirm the vulnerable code path exists
    If librplay source is available, inspect librplay/rplay.c and locate the rplay_unpack function, specifically the RPLAY_DATA case with the memcpy call using untrusted length fields
    Affected if The code contains the RPLAY_DATA case in rplay_unpack without proper bounds validation on the packet length before memcpy

A user is affected if rplay version 3.3.2 or lower is installed, the daemon is running and network-accessible, and the vulnerable rplay_unpack function handles incoming packets without bounds checking.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement proper bounds checking on packet length fields before the memcpy call, validate that the source data size does not exceed the destination buffer size, and consider adding authentication for remote packet processing if this is a network service.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation4.0 h
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  • Review / QA1.0 h
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