A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in ros_comm and ros-melodic-ros-comm up to 1.14.3. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation as part of a Hostname leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in the ROS communications-related packages (aka ros_comm or ros-melodic-ros-comm) through 1.14.3. A buffer overflow allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an IP address with a long hostname.

The weakness was shared 11/22/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-13566 since 07/11/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• ros-melodic-ros-comm
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• 1.14.0
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