PT-2018-13610 · Amazon Web Services · Freertos

Ori Karliner · Published 2018-12-06 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-16522

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS versions prior to 1.3.2

Description The issue is related to an uninitialized pointer free in the SOCKETS SetSockOpt function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.3.2, update to version 1.3.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-824

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16522

Affected Products

Freertos

References · 6

• 🔥 https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-details · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16522 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16522 · Security Note
• https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/v1.3.2/CHANGELOG.md · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16522 · Note
• https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-put-wide-range-devices-risk-compromise-smart-homes-critical-infrastructure-systems · Note