CVE-2022-24939 Malformed Zigbee packet with invalid destination address causes Assert

Medium 5.7 Published Updated

A malformed Zigbee packet with an invalid destination address causes a stack overflow and device reset in the Ember ZNet stack.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-24939?

CVE-2022-24939 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in silabs.com Ember ZNet, published on 17 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A malformed packet containing an invalid destination address, causes a stack overflow in the Ember ZNet stack. This causes an assert which leads to a reset, immediately clearing the error.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24939?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Silabs Gecko Software Development Kit, Silabs Zigbee Emberznet.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24939?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-24939 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-2022-24939 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24939 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-q35w-7696-fc7r.

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