CVE-2019-15134 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15134?

CVE-2019-15134 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

RIOT through 2019.07 contains a memory leak in the TCP implementation (gnrc_tcp), allowing an attacker to consume all memory available for network packets and thus effectively stopping all network threads from working. This is related to _receive in sys/net/gnrc/transport_layer/tcp/gnrc_tcp_eventloop.c upon receiving an ACK before a SYN.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15134?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Riot-Os Riot.

How do I fix CVE-2019-15134?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-15134 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-2019-15134 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15134 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2024-32017 Buffer overflows in RIOT Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-33975 RIOT-OS vulnerable to Out of Bounds Write in _rbuf_add Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24819 RIOT-OS vulnerable to Buffer Overflow during IPHC receive Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24823 RIOT-OS vulnerable to Packet Type Confusion during IPHC send Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27357 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8vq3-x8qc-6gpc.