An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The routine for processing the next header field (and deducing whether the IPv6 extension headers are valid) doesn't check whether the header extension length field would overflow. Therefore, if it wraps around to zero, iterating through the extension headers will not increment the current data pointer. This leads to an infinite loop and Denial-of-Service in pico_ipv6_check_headers_sequence() in pico_ipv6.c.
References
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https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-12-11T22:32:36

Updated: 2020-12-11T22:32:36

Reserved: 2020-08-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-17444

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-11T23:15:13.450

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747


Link: CVE-2020-17444

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