DevilutionX 1.4.0 through 1.5.5 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the bundled libmpq libmpq__archive_dup routine when opening crafted MPQ archives. Attackers can supply an MPQ archive whose block table count exceeds its hash table count, causing memcpy to overflow the heap during startup and crash the game.
History

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Diasurgical
Diasurgical devilutionx
Vendors & Products Diasurgical
Diasurgical devilutionx

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:30:00 +0000

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Description DevilutionX 1.4.0 through 1.5.5 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the bundled libmpq libmpq__archive_dup routine when opening crafted MPQ archives. Attackers can supply an MPQ archive whose block table count exceeds its hash table count, causing memcpy to overflow the heap during startup and crash the game.
Title DevilutionX 1.4.0 through 1.5.5 Heap Buffer Overflow via libmpq__archive_dup
Weaknesses CWE-787
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published: 2026-10-27T00:34:01.167Z

Updated: 2026-10-27T00:34:01.167Z

Reserved: 2026-10-27T00:10:22.758Z

Link: CVE-2026-116842

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-27T01:19:07.573

Modified: 2026-10-27T16:04:22.707

Link: CVE-2026-116842

cve-icon Redhat

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