An issue was discovered in MBed OS 6.16.0. During processing of HCI packets, the software dynamically determines the length of the packet data by reading 2 bytes from the packet header. A buffer is then allocated to contain the entire packet, the size of which is calculated as the length of the packet body determined earlier plus the header length. WsfMsgAlloc then increments this again by sizeof(wsfMsg_t). This may cause an integer overflow that results in the buffer being significantly too small to contain the entire packet. This may cause a buffer overflow of up to 65 KB . This bug is trivial to exploit for a denial of service but can generally not be exploited further because the exploitable buffer is dynamically allocated.
History

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Arm
Arm mbed
Weaknesses CWE-190
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:arm:mbed:6.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Arm
Arm mbed
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:15:00 +0000

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Description An issue was discovered in MBed OS 6.16.0. During processing of HCI packets, the software dynamically determines the length of the packet data by reading 2 bytes from the packet header. A buffer is then allocated to contain the entire packet, the size of which is calculated as the length of the packet body determined earlier plus the header length. WsfMsgAlloc then increments this again by sizeof(wsfMsg_t). This may cause an integer overflow that results in the buffer being significantly too small to contain the entire packet. This may cause a buffer overflow of up to 65 KB . This bug is trivial to exploit for a denial of service but can generally not be exploited further because the exploitable buffer is dynamically allocated.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-11-20T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-11-20T20:00:29.409362

Reserved: 2024-10-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2024-48983

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-11-20T20:15:19.183

Modified: 2024-11-22T17:26:37.210

Link: CVE-2024-48983

cve-icon Redhat

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