CVE-2022-41972
Contiki-NG Bluetooth Low Energy L2CAP NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability
Description
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for Next-Generation IoT devices. Versions prior to 4.9 contain a NULL Pointer Dereference in BLE L2CAP module. The Contiki-NG operating system for IoT devices contains a Bluetooth Low Energy stack. An attacker can inject a packet in this stack, which causes the implementation to dereference a NULL pointer and triggers undefined behavior. More specifically, while processing the L2CAP protocol, the implementation maps an incoming channel ID to its metadata structure. In this structure, state information regarding credits is managed through calls to the function input_l2cap_credit in the module os/net/mac/ble/ble-l2cap.c. Unfortunately, the input_l2cap_credit function does not check that the metadata corresponding to the user-supplied channel ID actually exists, which can lead to the channel variable being set to NULL before a pointer dereferencing operation is performed. The vulnerability has been patched in the "develop" branch of Contiki-NG, and will be included in release 4.9. Users can apply the patch in Contiki-NG pull request #2253 as a workaround until the new package is released.
INFO
Published Date :
Dec. 16, 2022, 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Dec. 27, 2022, 5:18 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
2.8
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2022-41972.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/2253 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/security/advisories/GHSA-24xp-g5gf-6vvm | Third Party Advisory |
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 27, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/2253 No Types Assigned https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/2253 Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/security/advisories/GHSA-24xp-g5gf-6vvm No Types Assigned https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/security/advisories/GHSA-24xp-g5gf-6vvm Third Party Advisory Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 4.8
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0.06 }} 0.00%
score
0.23869
percentile