Description
An issue was discovered in Contiki Operating System 3.0. A use-after-free vulnerability exists in httpd-simple.c in cc26xx-web-demo httpd, where upon a connection close event, the http_state structure was not deallocated properly, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the output processing function. This resulted in a board crash, which can be used to perform denial of service.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0105
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-416
Status
published
Products (1)
contiki-os/contiki
3.0
Published
May 28, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026