Description
Buffer overflows were discovered in Contiki-NG 4.4 through 4.5, in the SNMP agent. Functions parsing the OIDs in SNMP requests lack sufficient allocated target-buffer capacity verification when writing parsed OID values. The function snmp_oid_decode_oid() may overwrite memory areas beyond the provided target buffer, when called from snmp_message_decode() upon an SNMP request reception. Because the content of the write operations is externally provided in the SNMP requests, it enables a remote overwrite of an IoT device's memory regions beyond the allocated buffer. This overflow may allow remote overwrite of stack and statically allocated variables memory regions by sending a crafted SNMP request.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FypWH_g475jSL0mDFzquaATCeRIHQ2kj/view?usp=sharingThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/issues/1351Third Party Advisory
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FypWH_g475jSL0mDFzquaATCeRIHQ2kj/view?usp=sharingThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/issues/1351Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Aug 18, 2020
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified