Silicon Labs Gecko SDK prior 4.3.0 Notifications resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Silicon Labs Gecko SDK. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Notifications Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-0240. The attack requires being on the local network. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Silicon Labs Gecko SDK. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Notifications Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

A memory leak in the Silicon Labs' Bluetooth stack for EFR32 products may cause memory to be exhausted when sending notifications to multiple clients, this results in all Bluetooth operations, such as advertising and scanning, to stop.

The weakness was released 02/15/2024. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-0240 since 01/04/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.3.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Gecko SDK 4.3.0

Timelineinfo

01/04/2024 🔍
02/15/2024 +42 days 🔍
02/15/2024 +0 days 🔍
02/06/2025 +357 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-0240 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-0240
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-253961

Entryinfo

Created: 02/15/2024 22:16
Updated: 02/06/2025 10:12
Changes: 02/15/2024 22:16 (48), 03/08/2024 08:26 (1), 09/26/2024 01:42 (16), 02/06/2025 10:12 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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