Divide by zero in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16523

 

Divide by zero in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16523

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15438
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16523
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the function prvCheckOptions checks the TCP options supplied within an Rx TCP packet. A remote attacker can trigger a divide by zero error in prvCheckOptions within the TCP/IP component and cause the system to crash.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16523

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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