Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36005

Buffer overflow in zephyr - CVE-2017-14199

Published: April 12, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36005

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14199

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: rutantan

Affected software:
zephyr

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

A buffer overflow has been found in the Zephyr Project's getaddrinfo() implementation in 1.9.0 and 1.10.0.

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