CVE-2017-7295

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-05-28

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Contiki (Contiki-os)

References

• https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e