Softing uaToolkit Embedded up to 1.40.0 PubSub Discovery Announcement Message null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Softing uaToolkit Embedded up to 1.40.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component PubSub Discovery Announcement Message Handler. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2022-44018. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Softing uaToolkit Embedded up to 1.40.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component PubSub Discovery Announcement Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In Softing uaToolkit Embedded before 1.40.1, a malformed PubSub discovery announcement message can cause a NULL pointer dereference or out-of-bounds memory access in the subscriber application.

The weakness was disclosed 01/27/2023. The advisory is shared for download at industrial.softing.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-44018 since 10/29/2022. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.40.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Softing

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• uaToolkit Embedded

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40.0

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