vulnerability

Wind River VxWorks: CVE-2019-12255: Heap overflow in DHCP Offer/ACK parsing inside ipdhcpc

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 29, 2019
Added
Oct 11, 2019
Modified
Oct 21, 2020

Description

Wind River VxWorks has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 1 of 4). This is a IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer = 0 that leads to an integer underflow. This is also known as Urgent/11.

Solution

vxworks-upgrade-latest
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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