Impact
An attacker can trigger out-of-bounds reads in the RPL-Lite implementation of the RPL protocol in the Contiki-NG operating system. This vulnerability is caused by insufficient control of the lengths for DIO and DAO messages, in particular when they contain RPL sub-option headers.
Patches
The problem has been patched in Contiki-NG 4.9.
Workarounds
One can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2484 to patch the system.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
Open an issue in https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng
Email us at security@contiki-ng.org
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Impact
An attacker can trigger out-of-bounds reads in the RPL-Lite implementation of the RPL protocol in the Contiki-NG operating system. This vulnerability is caused by insufficient control of the lengths for DIO and DAO messages, in particular when they contain RPL sub-option headers.
Patches
The problem has been patched in Contiki-NG 4.9.
Workarounds
One can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2484 to patch the system.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
Open an issue in https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng
Email us at security@contiki-ng.org