CVE-2023-30546 (GCVE-0-2023-30546)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-26 18:14 – Updated: 2025-01-30 21:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Contiki-NG has off-by-one error in Antelope DBMS
Summary
Contiki-NG is an operating system for Internet of Things devices. An off-by-one error can be triggered in the Antelope database management system in the Contiki-NG operating system in versions 4.8 and prior. The problem exists in the Contiki File System (CFS) backend for the storage of data (file os/storage/antelope/storage-cfs.c). In the functions `storage_get_index` and `storage_put_index`, a buffer for merging two strings is allocated with one byte less than the maximum size of the merged strings, causing subsequent function calls to the cfs_open function to read from memory beyond the buffer size. The vulnerability has been patched in the "develop" branch of Contiki-NG, and is expected to be included in the next release. As a workaround, the problem can be fixed by applying the patch in Contiki-NG pull request #2425.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-30 21:31 UTC
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/security… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/2425 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| contiki-ng | contiki-ng |
Affected:
<= 4.8
|
guessed |
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