MBed OS 6.16.0 HCI Packet buffer overflow

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in MBed OS 6.16.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component HCI Packet Handler. The manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-48981. No exploit exists. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in MBed OS 6.16.0. Affected is an unknown part of the component HCI Packet Handler. 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:

An issue was discovered in MBed OS 6.16.0. During processing of HCI packets, the software dynamically determines the length of the packet header by looking up the identifying first byte and matching it against a table of possible lengths. The initial parsing function, hciTrSerialRxIncoming does not drop packets with invalid identifiers but also does not set a safe default for the length of unknown packets' headers, leading to a buffer overflow. This can be leveraged into an arbitrary write by an attacker. It is possible to overwrite the pointer to a not-yet-allocated buffer that is supposed to receive the contents of the packet body. One can then overwrite the state variable used by the function to determine which state of packet parsing is currently occurring. Because the buffer is allocated when the last byte of the header has been copied, the combination of having a bad header length variable that will never match the counter variable and being able to overwrite the state variable with the resulting buffer overflow can be used to advance the function to the next step while skipping the buffer allocation and resulting pointer write. The next 16 bytes from the packet body are then written wherever the corrupted data pointer is pointing.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-48981 since 10/11/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. 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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• 6.16.0

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