RIOT-OS up to 2023.01 6LoWPAN Frame null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability was found in RIOT-OS up to 2023.01. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component 6LoWPAN Frame Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

RIOT-OS, an operating system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, contains a network stack with the ability to process 6LoWPAN frames. In versions 2023.01 and prior, an attacker can send a crafted frame which is forwarded by the device. During encoding of the packet a NULL pointer dereference occurs. This crashes the device leading to denial of service. A patch is available at pull request 19678. There are no known workarounds.

The weakness was released 05/30/2023 as GHSA-r2pv-3jqc-vh7w. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-33973 since 05/24/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Applying the patch c9d7863e5664a169035038628029bb07e090c5ff is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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Class: Null pointer dereference
CWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Patch: c9d7863e5664a169035038628029bb07e090c5ff

Timelineinfo

05/24/2023 CVE reserved
05/30/2023 +6 days Advisory disclosed
05/30/2023 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/30/2023 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: GHSA-r2pv-3jqc-vh7w
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-33973 (🔒)

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Created: 05/30/2023 21:44
Changes: 05/30/2023 21:44 (51)
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