CVE-2023-37459

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-37459
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-15 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-19 15:14:00 UTC
DescriptionContiki-NG is an operating system for internet-of-things devices. In versions 4.9 and prior, when a packet is received, the Contiki-NG network stack attempts to start the periodic TCP timer if it is a TCP packet with the SYN flag set. But the implementation does not first verify that a full TCP header has been received. Specifically, the implementation attempts to access the flags field from the TCP buffer in the following conditional expression in the `check_for_tcp_syn` function. For this reason, an attacker can inject a truncated TCP packet, which will lead to an out-of-bound read from the packet buffer. As of time of publication, a patched version is not available. As a workaround, one can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2510 to patch the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Out-of-bounds read when processing a received IPv6 packet · Advisory · contiki-ng/contiki-ng · GitHub MISC github.com
tcpip: Check whether we have a full TCP header before checking if the SYN flag is set. by nvt · Pull Request #2510 · contiki-ng/contiki-ng · GitHub MISC github.com
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