Upstream information
Description
An issue was discovered in the IPv6 stack in Contiki through 3.0. There is an insufficient check for the IPv6 header length. This leads to Denial-of-Service and potential Remote Code Execution via a crafted ICMPv6 echo packet.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.5 |
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 9.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 |
Note from the SUSE Security Team
SUSE does not ship the Nut/Net stack, so it is not affected by this problem. SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1179907 [NEW] No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Thu Dec 10 17:28:55 2020CVE page last modified: Sun Sep 8 11:37:35 2024