CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-17444

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-12-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190, CWE-20, CWE-835

Description

An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The routine for processing the next header field (and deducing whether the IPv6 extension headers are valid) doesn't check whether the header extension length field would overflow. Therefore, if it wraps around to zero, iterating through the extension headers will not increment the current data pointer. This leads to an infinite loop and Denial-of-Service in pico_ipv6_check_headers_sequence() in pico_ipv6.c.

Affected configurations

• altran picotcp (<= 1.7.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References