CVE-2026-49127
Music Player Daemon < 0.24.11 Stack Buffer Overflow via pcm_unpack_24be
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- May 28, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2026
- Reserved
- May 27, 2026
Description
Music Player Daemon (MPD) before version 0.24.11 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the pcm_unpack_24be function in src/pcm/Pack.cxx that allows unauthenticated attackers to corrupt stack memory by triggering an off-by-one write in the PCM decoder plugin. Attackers can issue two MPD commands referencing a malicious HTTP audio source to cause the unpack loop to write 1366 entries into a 1365-entry buffer, overwriting four bytes past the array boundary with three attacker-controlled bytes from an HTTP response body, resulting in daemon termination or potential code execution.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.8 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 8.6 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
MPDMusicPlayerDaemon |
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References
- https://mstreet97.github.io/security-research/opensource/vulnerability-disclosure/cybersecurity/cve/2026/05/25/Four_Bugs_Reachable_nc.htmltechnical-descriptionexploit
- https://www.musicpd.org/news/2026/05/mpd-0-24-11-released/release-notespatch
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/v0.24.11/NEWSrelease-notes
- https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/releases/tag/v0.24.11release-notes
- https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/2485issue-tracking
- https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/commit/59911028c020f84bc2e669da6a1ef88121301274patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/music-player-daemon-stack-buffer-overflow-via-pcm-unpack-24bethird-party-advisory
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