Memory corruption in WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems products - CVE-2018-16525

 

Memory corruption in WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems products - CVE-2018-16525

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15435
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16525
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Amazon Web Services
WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems
Affected software:
FreeRTOS
OpenRTOS
SafeRTOS

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16525

Update the affected software to version 1.3.2.

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