Contiki-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.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-09-15T19:19:30.232Z

Updated: 2024-09-25T18:04:01.248Z

Reserved: 2023-07-06T13:01:36.996Z

Link: CVE-2023-37459

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T17:16:30.634Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-15T20:15:08.650

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:11:44.987

Link: CVE-2023-37459

cve-icon Redhat

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