An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause an integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow and resulting in denial of service and potential remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over network to trigger this vulnerability.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2017-11-07T16:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T22:56:25.193Z
Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-2921
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-11-07T16:29:01.217
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:24:27.773
Link: CVE-2017-2921
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