Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16599

 

Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16599

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15441
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-2018-16599
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 prvTreatNBNS, just like prvParseDNSReply, doesn’t check if xDataLength is large enough to contain the parsed NBNS packet. A remote attacker can trigger memory leak in NBNS and access arbitrary data.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16599

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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