CVE detail

CVE-2020-17438 — CVE-2020-17438

Published 2020-12-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor uip_project · Product uip · Source nvd
CRITICAL
severity
CVSS-derived band
9.8
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.1854
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
97.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that reassembles fragmented packets fails to properly validate the total length of an incoming packet specified in its IP header, as well as the fragmentation offset value specified in the IP header. By crafting a packet with specific values of the IP header length and the fragmentation offset, attackers can write into the .bss section of the program (past the statically allocated buffer that is used for storing the fragmented data) and cause a denial of service in uip_reass() in uip.c, or possibly execute arbitrary code on some target architectures.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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