A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr up to 3.6. Affected by this issue is the function adv_ext_report of the component HCI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-6259 since 06/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/14/2024).

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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• Project Management Software

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• zephyrproject-rtos

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• Zephyr

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• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6

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• open-source

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