Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset Affecting cesanta/mongoose package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CESANTAMONGOOSE-8383395
  • published18 Nov 2024
  • disclosed18 Nov 2024
  • creditGabriele Quagliarella of Nozomi Networks

Introduced: 18 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-42389  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-823  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cesanta/mongoose.

Overview

cesanta/mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset through the handling of unexpected TLS packets. An attacker can read unintended heap memory space by sending a specially crafted TLS packet.

References

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version 3.1