Wind River VxWorks 6.7 though 6.9 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 3 of 4). This is an IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer state confusion during connect() to a remote host.

Wind River VxWorks 6.7 though 6.9 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 3 of 4). This is an IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer state confusion during connect() to a remote host.

This vulnerability resides in the IPv4 option parsing and may be triggered by IPv4 packets containing invalid options. The most likely outcome of triggering this defect is that the tNet0 task crashes. This vulnerability can result in remote code execution. DHCP packets may go past the local area network (LAN) via DHCP-relays, but are otherwise confined to the LAN. The DHCP-client may be used by VxWorks and in the bootrom. Bootrom, using DHCP/BOOTP, is only vulnerable during the boot-process. This vulnerability may be used to overwrite the heap, which could result in a later crash when a task requests memory from the heap. This vulnerability can result in remote code execution. An attacker can either hijack an existing TCP-session and inject bad TCP-segments or establish a new TCP-session on any TCP-port listened to by the target. This vulnerability could lead to a buffer overflow of up to a full TCP receive-window (by default, 10k-64k depending on version). The buffer overflow occurs in the task calling recv()/recvfrom()/recvmsg(). Applications that pass a buffer equal to or larger than a full TCP-window are not susceptible to this attack. Applications passing a stack-allocated variable as a buffer are the easiest to exploit. The most likely outcome is a crash of the application reading from the affected socket, which could result in remote code execution. This vulnerability could lead to a buffer overflow of up to a full TCP receive-window (by default, 10k-64k depending on…

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