CVE-2020-17469

Published Dec 11, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-9421 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 1:53 PM
Reserved
Aug 10, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 11, 2020, 11:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:58 AM