CVE-2020-24338

Summary

CVECVE-2020-24338
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-11 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-14 21:40:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in picoTCP through 1.7.0. The DNS domain name record decompression functionality in pico_dns_decompress_name() in pico_dns_common.c does not validate the compression pointer offset values with respect to the actual data present in a DNS response packet, causing out-of-bounds writes that lead to Denial-of-Service and Remote Code Execution.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Altran Picotcp 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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