Upstream information

CVE-2020-17440 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1179907 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Dec 10 17:28:55 2020
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:50:55 2022