Picotcp
CVE-2023-30463
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Integer overflow checks
MITRE ATT&CK
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Altran picoTCP through 1.7.0 allows memory corruption (and subsequent denial of service) because of an integer overflow in pico_ipv6_alloc when processing large ICMPv6 packets. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate arithmetic operations, use safe integer libraries, check bounds before allocation.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Integer Overflow (CWE-190), which allows attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow. Altran picoTCP through 1.7.0 allows memory corruption (and subsequent denial of service) because of an integer overflow in pico_ipv6_alloc when processing large ICMPv6 packets. This affects installations with Ethernet support in which a packet size greater than 65495 may occur. Affected products include: Altran Picotcp. Version information: through 1.7.0.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Altran picoTCP through 1.7.0 allows memory corruption (and subsequent denial of service) because of an integer overflow in pico_ipv6_alloc when processing large ICMPv6 packets. This affects installations with Ethernet support in which a packet size greater than 65495 may occur.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation produces a result that exceeds the maximum value a given integer type can store.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
picoTCP (versions 1.7.0 - 1.5.0) is vulnerable to stack buffer overflow resulting in code execution or denial of service
An issue was discovered in picoTCP through 1.7.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exp
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability
An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable
VirtualSquare picoTCP (aka PicoTCP-NG) through 2.1 does not properly check whether header sizes would result in accessin
VirtualSquare picoTCP (aka PicoTCP-NG) through 2.1 lacks certain size calculations before attempting to set a value of a
VirtualSquare picoTCP (aka PicoTCP-NG) through 2.1 does not have an MSS lower bound (e.g., it could be zero). Rated high
VirtualSquare picoTCP (aka PicoTCP-NG) through 2.1 does not check the transport layer length in a frame before performin
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is r
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is r
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is r
An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no
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