CVE-2020-17442

HIGH

picoTCP < 1.7.0 - Denial of Service via IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Extension Header Length

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The code for parsing the hop-by-hop IPv6 extension headers does not validate the bounds of the extension header length value, which may result in Integer Wraparound. Therefore, a crafted extension header length value may cause Denial-of-Service because it affects the loop in which the extension headers are parsed in pico_ipv6_process_hopbyhop() in pico_ipv6.c.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0288
EPSS Percentile 85.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (1)
altran/picotcp < 1.7.0
Published Dec 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026