MZ Automation LibIEC61850 MMS Client stack-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in MZ Automation LibIEC61850. This impacts an unknown function of the component MMS Client. The manipulation results in stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-45971. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in MZ Automation LibIEC61850 (affected version not known). Affected is some unknown functionality of the component MMS Client. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple Buffer overflows in the MMS Client in MZ Automation LibIEC61850 before commit 1f52be9ddeae00e69cd43e4cac3cb4f0c880c4f0 allow a malicious server to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via the MMS IdentifyResponse message.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-45971 since 09/11/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 1f52be9ddeae00e69cd43e4cac3cb4f0c880c4f0 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
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Patch: 1f52be9ddeae00e69cd43e4cac3cb4f0c880c4f0

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09/11/2024 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 1f52be9ddeae00e69cd43e4cac3cb4f0c880c4f0
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-45971 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-45971
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-284832

Entryinfo

Created: 11/15/2024 20:01
Updated: 10/01/2025 22:24
Changes: 11/15/2024 20:01 (56), 10/01/2025 22:24 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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