CVE-2017-12467 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption in CCN-lite due to a memory leak in structure allocation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-12467?
CVE-2017-12467 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory leak in CCN-lite before 2.00 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to allocate memory for the comp or complen structure member.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12467?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ccn-Lite Ccn-Lite.
How do I fix CVE-2017-12467?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-12467 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-12467 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12467 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2018-12889 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2018-7039 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2018-6948 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2018-6953 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2017-12465 Multiple integer overflows in CCN-lite before 2.00 allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the (1
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qxjr-5wvf-x33f.