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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2017-11-07T16:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T18:59:36.372Z
Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-2922
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-11-07T16:29:01.247
Modified: 2022-06-13T19:16:34.267
Link: CVE-2017-2922
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