Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16527

 

Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16527

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15440
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16527
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to prvProcessICMPPacket doesn’t validate that the received frame is large enough to be an ICMP packet. A remote attacker can trigger ICMP memory leak and access arbitrary data.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16527

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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