Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset Affecting cesanta/mongoose package, versions [,7.15)
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- published18 Nov 2024
- disclosed18 Nov 2024
- creditGabriele Quagliarella of Nozomi Networks
Introduced: 18 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-42390 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade cesanta/mongoose to version 7.15 or higher.
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 force the application to read unintended heap memory space by sending a specially crafted TLS packet.