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CVE-2021-31317 (GCVE-0-2021-31317)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-18 19:44 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:55
VLAI
Summary
Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Type Confusion in the VDasher constructor of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access Telegram's heap memory out-of-bounds on a victim device via a malicious animated sticker.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2021-02-16 00:00
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