CVE-2020-24334

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-24334
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-11 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-15 15:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe code that processes DNS responses in uIP through 1.0, as used in Contiki and Contiki-NG, does not check whether the number of responses specified in the DNS packet header corresponds to the response data available in the DNS packet, leading to an out-of-bounds read and Denial-of-Service in resolv.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Contiki-ng Contiki-ng - All All All
Operating System Contiki-ng Contiki-ng - All All All
Operating System Contiki-os Contiki - All All All
Operating System Contiki-os Contiki - All All All
Application Uip Project Uip All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VU#815128 - Embedded TCP/IP stacks have memory corruption vulnerabilities MISC www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Multiple Embedded TCP/IP Stacks | CISA MISC us-cert.cisa.gov Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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