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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-55862 EUVD-2026-102927

pupnp: Incomplete fix for CVE-2021-28302: recursive DOM functions cause stack overflow

Published Oct 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

pupnp is an SDK for development of UPnP device and control point applications. Prior to 2.0.0, multiple ixml DOM traversal functions process deeply nested XML with unbounded recursion. The iterative XML parser accepts the document, but ixmlPrintDomTreeRecursive in ixml/src/ixml.c and ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameRecursive, ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameNSRecursive, ixmlNode_cloneNodeTreeRecursive, and ixmlNode_isAncestor in ixml/src/node.c recurse over firstChild and nextSibling links. An unauthenticated peer on the local network can supply deeply nested XML through a SOAP request, exhaust a service thread's stack, and crash the UPnP service. This is an incomplete-fix case for CVE-2021-28302 because its remediation converted ixmlNode_free but left these traversal paths recursive. This issue is fixed in 2.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pupnp pupnp < 2.0.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pupnp 1:22.1.8-2 —
Debian 13 pupnp No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 pupnp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pupnp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pupnp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pupnp-1.8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pupnp-1.8 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libupnp +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS mediatomb No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS libupnp No fix yet —

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