An issue was discovered in Contiki through 3.0. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the uIP TCP/IP stack component when handling RPL extension headers of IPv6 network packets in rpl_remove_header in net/rpl/rpl-ext-header.c.
The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.
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| https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 | third party advisory us government resource |
| https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 | third party advisory us government resource |