Out-of-bounds read in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16602

 

Out-of-bounds read in Amazon Web Services products - CVE-2018-16602

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15444
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-2018-16602
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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 prvProcessDHCPReplies function doesn’t validate that a packet is large enough to be a valid DHCP packet. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read and access arbitrary data.

Affected software

SafeRTOS
OpenRTOS
FreeRTOS

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16602

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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