CVE-2020-17440

Published Dec 11, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that domain names present in the DNS responses have '\0' termination. This results in errors when calculating the offset of the pointer that jumps over domain name bytes in DNS response packets when a name lacks this termination, and eventually leads to dereferencing the pointer at an invalid/arbitrary address, within newdata() and parse_name() in resolv.c.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-9393 An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that domain names present in the DNS responses have '\0' termination. This results in errors when calculating the offset of the pointer that jumps over domain name bytes in DNS response packets when a name lacks this termination, and eventually leads to dereferencing the pointer at an invalid/arbitrary address, within newdata() and parse_name() in resolv.c.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 1:53 PM
Reserved
Aug 7, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 11, 2020, 11:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:58 AM