CVE-2020-17469

HIGH

FNET < 4.6.4 - Denial of Service via IPv6 Fragment Reassembly Uninitialized Pointer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
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
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://fnet.sourceforge.net/manual/fnet_history.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0296
EPSS Percentile 85.4%
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-824
Status published
Products (1)
butok/fnet < 4.6.4
Published Dec 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026