Memory corruption in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16525

 

Memory corruption in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16525

Published: October 19, 2018 / Updated: December 11, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15435
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16525
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the TCP/IP stack of FreeRTOS. A remote attacker can send specially crafted DNS\LLMNR packets, trigger memory corruption in DNS\LLMNR and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16525

Update the affected software to version 1.3.2.

SafeRTOS - update to 1.3.2
OpenRTOS - update to 1.3.2
FreeRTOS - update to 1.3.2

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