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CVE-2020-17440

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Published: Dec 11, 2020Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Uip Project: Uip
1 product
Uip
Configuration A
1 vulnerable · 1 platform
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 1.0
Running on/withPlatform Versions
Contiki Os
Contiki
Version 3.0

References (4)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource

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