CVE-2021-44538
CRITICALMatrix libolm < 3.2.7 - Buffer Overflow in olm_session_describe
Title source: llmDescription
The olm_session_describe function in Matrix libolm before 3.2.7 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The Olm session object represents a cryptographic channel between two parties. Therefore, its state is partially controllable by the remote party of the channel. Attackers can construct a crafted sequence of messages to manipulate the state of the receiver's session in such a way that, for some buffer sizes, a buffer overflow happens on a call to olm_session_describe. Furthermore, safe buffer sizes were undocumented. The overflow content is partially controllable by the attacker and limited to ASCII spaces and digits. The known affected products are Element Web And SchildiChat Web.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Product, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/-/tags
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/13/disclosure-buffer-overflow-in-libolm-and-matrix-js-sdk
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0192
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (8)
cinny_project/cinny
< 1.6.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
matrix/element
< 1.9.7 (2 CPE variants)
matrix/javascript_sdk
2.4.2 - 15.2.1
matrix/olm
3.1.4 - 3.2.8
schildi/schildichat
< 1.9.7-sc1 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Dec 14, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026