Vulnerability · Published Dec 11, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-17444

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The routine for processing the next header field (and deducing whether the IPv6 extension headers are valid) doesn't check whether the header extension length field would overflow. Therefore, if it wraps around to zero, iterating through the extension headers will not increment the current data pointer. This leads to an infinite loop and Denial-of-Service in pico_ipv6_check_headers_sequence() in pico_ipv6.c.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 x_refsource_MISC
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 x_refsource_MISC