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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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
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T17:16:30.634Z
NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-09-15T20:15:08.650
Modified: 2024-11-21T08:11:44.987
Link: CVE-2023-37459
Redhat
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