CVE details
CVE-2026-116842
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.
- Score
- 6.9 medium
- Published
- 2026-10-27
- Links
- NVD · cve.org · Report wrong data
Matched ports (1)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| games/devilutionX | devilutionX | 1.5.5_1 | unaddressed | amdmi3@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>devilutionX</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>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.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2026-116842</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116842</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2026-10-27</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-27</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>