CVE-2020-17442: altran picotcp Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-17442 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in altran picotcp. EPSS estimates a 3.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-12-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundThe product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.