CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24338
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
An issue was discovered in picoTCP through 1.7.0. The DNS domain name record decompression functionality in pico_dns_decompress_name() in pico_dns_common.c does not validate the compression pointer offset values with respect to the actual data present in a DNS response packet, causing out-of-bounds writes that lead to Denial-of-Service and Remote Code Execution.
Affected configurations
• altran picotcp (<= 1.7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource