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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-24338

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…

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 37.2%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 37.2%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
37.23% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
altran/picotcp
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.