{"id":"CVE-2020-17469","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-17469","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:14:55.687Z","title":"When faced with an incoming fragment that belongs to a non-empty fragment list, IPv6 reassembly must check that there are no empty holes between the fragments: this leads to an uninitialized pointer dereference in _fnet_ip6_reassembly in fnet_ip6.c, and…","description":"An issue was discovered in FNET through 4.6.4. The code for IPv6 fragment reassembly tries to access a previous fragment starting from a network incoming fragment that still doesn't have a reference to the previous one (which supposedly resides in the reassembly list). When faced with an incoming fragment that belongs to a non-empty fragment list, IPv6 reassembly must check that there are no empty holes between the fragments: this leads to an uninitialized pointer dereference in _fnet_ip6_reassembly in fnet_ip6.c, and causes Denial-of-Service.","published":"2020-12-11T23:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:58:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-824"],"affected":["butok/fnet"],"epss":{"score":0.02992,"percentile":0.87236,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.99%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://fnet.sourceforge.net/manual/fnet_history.html","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://fnet.sourceforge.net/manual/fnet_history.html","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17469","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}