A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Sierra Wireless ALEOS up to 4.9.8/4.16. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a assertion vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-617. The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The weakness was disclosed 12/05/2023 as swi-psa-2023-006. The advisory is shared for download at source.sierrawireless.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-40462 since 08/14/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214487 (Debian dla-3701 : libtinyxml-dev - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (214487). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Sierra Wireless

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• ALEOS

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.9.0
• 4.9.1
• 4.9.2
• 4.9.3
• 4.9.4
• 4.9.5
• 4.9.6
• 4.9.7
• 4.9.8
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16

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• commercial

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