CVE-2020-17440 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0 as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that domain names present in the DNS responses have ‘\0’ termination. This results in errors when calculating the offset of the pointer that jumps over domain name bytes in DNS response packets when a name lacks this termination and eventually leads to dereferencing the pointer at an invalid/arbitrary address within newdata() and parse_name() in resolv.c.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5