Vulnerability · Published Dec 11, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-17469
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 3.0% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
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
- http://fnet.sourceforge.net/manual/fnet_history.html x_refsource_CONFIRM