Advisories

libcoap < 4.3.5 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in Address Resolution DoS or Potential RCE

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • libcoap < 4.3.5 prior to commit 30db3ea

CWE
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS
8.2
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
SecMate
Description
libcoap versions up to and including 4.3.5, prior to commit 30db3ea, contain a stack-based buffer overflow in address resolution when attacker-controlled hostname data is copied into a fixed 256-byte stack buffer without proper bounds checking. A remote attacker can trigger a crash and potentially achieve remote code execution depending on compiler options and runtime memory protections. Exploitation requires the proxy logic to be enabled (i.e., the proxy request handling code path in an application using libcoap).