An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-12063 An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:59:36.372Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-2922

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-07T16:29:01.247

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-2922

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