CVE-2023-4424 bt: hci: DoS and possible RCE
A malicious BLE device can trigger a buffer overflow in Zephyr OS via malformed advertising packets, causing denial of service or remote code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-4424?
CVE-2023-4424 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Zephyrproject Zephyr, published on 21 Nov 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An malicious BLE device can cause buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packet BLE device using Zephyr OS, leading to DoS or potential RCE on the victim BLE device.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4424?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Zephyrproject Zephyr.
How do I fix CVE-2023-4424?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4424 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-4424 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4424 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2022-3806 Bluetooth HCI Error Handling Double Free
- CVE-2017-14199 Memory corruption in getaddrinfo
- CVE-2018-1000800 Null dereference in n/a
- CVE-2021-3329 DOS: Incorrect handling of the initial HCI ACL_MTU handshake packet leads to crash of bluetooth host layer
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j4qm-xgpf-qjw3.