Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting nasa/CryptoLib package, versions [0,]
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- published20 Mar 2025
- disclosed18 Mar 2025
- creditMirko Bitetto
Introduced: 18 Mar 2025
NewCVE-2025-29910 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in the crypto_handle_incrementing_nontransmitted_counter() function in crypto_tc.c. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion and degraded system performance over time by exploiting the improper memory management where memory allocated using malloc is not always freed.
PoC
Pass the following input to the Crypto_TC_ProcessSecurity() function:
08 03 00 02 00 0B 00 0A FD 02 02 00 08 03 00 00 54 00 00 13