Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16601

 

Information disclosure in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16601

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15443
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-2018-16601
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 the function prvProcessIPPacket removes the IP options field of an Rx packet if it is present. A remote attacker can trigger memory leak and access arbitrary data.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16601

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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