Contiki-NG up to 4.9 IPv6 Header Field out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Contiki-NG up to 4.9. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component IPv6 Header Field Handler. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-37281. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Contiki-NG up to 4.9. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component IPv6 Header Field Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Contiki-NG is an operating system for internet-of-things devices. In versions 4.9 and prior, when processing the various IPv6 header fields during IPHC header decompression, Contiki-NG confirms the received packet buffer contains enough data as needed for that field. But no similar check is done before decompressing the IPv6 address. Therefore, up to 16 bytes can be read out of bounds on the line with the statement `memcpy(&ipaddr->u8[16 - postcount], iphc_ptr, postcount);`. The value of `postcount` depends on the address compression used in the received packet and can be controlled by the attacker. As a result, an attacker can inject a packet that causes an out-of-bound read. As of time of publication, a patched version is not available. As a workaround, one can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2509 to patch the system.

The weakness was shared 09/16/2023 as GHSA-2v4c-9p48-g9pr. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-37281 since 06/29/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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

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• Contiki-NG

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/

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