CVE-2020-17437

Description

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. When the Urgent flag is set in a TCP packet, and the stack is configured to ignore the urgent data, the stack attempts to use the value of the Urgent pointer bytes to separate the Urgent data from the normal data, by calculating the offset at which the normal data should be present in the global buffer. However, the length of this offset is not checked; therefore, for large values of the Urgent pointer bytes, the data pointer can point to memory that is way beyond the data buffer in uip_process in uip.c.

Category

8.2
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.24%
Third-Party Advisory siemens.com Third-Party Advisory cisa.gov Third-Party Advisory cert.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
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
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-541018.pdf third party advisory patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-17437?
CVE-2020-17437 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-17437?
To fix CVE-2020-17437, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-17437 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2020-17437 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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