PT-2018-15449 · Contiki Ng · Contiki-Ng

Published 2018-12-28 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-20579

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Contiki-NG versions prior to 4.2

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the push function located in os/lib/json/jsonparse.c. This overflow allows an out-of-bounds write of an '{' or '[' character.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2, update to version 4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20579

Affected Products

Contiki-Ng

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20579 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20579 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/issues/601 · Note