What is CVE-2020-24340?

CVE-2020-24340 is a high-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2020-24340?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Altran Picotcp

CVE-2020-24340

An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. The code that processes DNS responses in pico_mdns_handle_data_as_answers_generic() in pico_mdns.c does not check whether the number of answers/responses specified in a DNS p…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.028 (84.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Altran Picotcp
Altran Picotcp-ng
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

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-2020-24340?: CVE-2020-24340 is a high-severity vulnerability in Altran Picotcp, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-24340?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.