CVE-2021-21279

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-21279
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-18 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-22 19:15:00 UTC
DescriptionContiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. In verions prior to 4.6, an attacker can perform a denial-of-service attack by triggering an infinite loop in the processing of IPv6 neighbor solicitation (NS) messages. This type of attack can effectively shut down the operation of the system because of the cooperative scheduling used for the main parts of Contiki-NG and its communication stack. The problem has been patched in Contiki-NG 4.6. Users can apply the patch for this vulnerability out-of-band as a workaround.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Contiki-ng Contiki-ng All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Infinite loop in IPv6 neighbor solicitation processing · Advisory · contiki-ng/contiki-ng · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
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