RTI Connext Professional up to 6.1.0 API buffer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in RTI Connext Professional up to 6.1.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function RTI_RoutingService_new/rti::recording::Service/RTI_QueuingService_new/RTI_CDS_Service_new of the component API. The manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-25724. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in RTI Connext Professional up to 6.1.0. Affected is the function RTI_RoutingService_new/rti::recording::Service/RTI_QueuingService_new/RTI_CDS_Service_new of the component API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In RTI Connext Professional 5.3.1 through 6.1.0 before 6.1.1, a buffer overflow in XML parsing from Routing Service, Recording Service, Queuing Service, and Cloud Discovery Service allows attackers to execute code with the affected service's privileges, compromise the service's integrity, leak sensitive information, or crash the service. These attacks could be done via a remote malicious RTPS message; a compromised call with malicious parameters to the RTI_RoutingService_new, rti::recording::Service, RTI_QueuingService_new, or RTI_CDS_Service_new public APIs; or a compromised local file system containing a malicious XML file.

The advisory is available at community.rti.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-25724 since 02/11/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 6.1.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• RTI

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• Connext Professional

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• 6.0
• 6.1.0

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