Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7295 - Use After Free vulnerability in Contiki-Os Contiki 3.0

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
contiki-os
CWE-416

Summary

An issue was discovered in Contiki Operating System 3.0. A use-after-free vulnerability exists in httpd-simple.c in cc26xx-web-demo httpd, where upon a connection close event, the http_state structure was not deallocated properly, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the output processing function. This resulted in a board crash, which can be used to perform denial of service.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Contiki-Os
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)