Out-of-bounds Read Affecting contiki-ng/contiki-ng package, versions [,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CONTIKINGCONTIKING-6137910
  • published22 Dec 2023
  • disclosed11 Nov 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-41873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade contiki-ng/contiki-ng to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read due to an integer truncation issue leading to only the lowest byte of the channel ID to be checked. A crafted channel ID leads to out-of-bounds memory to be read and written with attacker-controlled data.

CVSS Scores

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