What is CVE-2020-24338?

CVE-2020-24338 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2020-24338?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Altran Picotcp

CVE-2020-24338

An issue was discovered in picoTCP through 1.7.0. The DNS domain name record decompression functionality in pico_dns_decompress_name() in pico_dns_common.c does not validate the compression pointer offset values with respect to the actual…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.359 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Altran Picotcp
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-24338?: CVE-2020-24338 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-24338?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.