CVE-2021-21279: high-severity vulnerability in contiki-ng
Infinite loop in IPv6 neighbor solicitation processing
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.0%
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. In verions prior to 4.6, an attacker can perform a denial-of-service attack by triggering an infinite loop in the processing of IPv6 neighbor solicitation (NS) messages. This type of attack can effectively shut down the operation of the system because of the cooperative scheduling used for the main parts of Contiki-NG and its communication stack. The problem has been patched in Contiki-NG 4.6. Users can apply the patch for this vulnerability out-of-band as a workaround.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
contiki-ng · contiki-ngRelated CVEs — contiki-ng
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2022-35927HIGHUnverified DIO prefix info lengths in RPL-Classic in Contiki-NGEPSS 2.2%CVE-2021-32771HIGHBuffer overflow in contiki-ngEPSS 1.4%CVE-2022-35926MEDIUMOut-of-bounds read in IPv6 neighbor solicitation in Contiki-NGEPSS 1.3%CVE-2021-21410HIGHOut-of-bounds read in the 6LoWPAN implementationEPSS 1.2%CVE-2021-21257HIGHOut-of-bounds write in RPL-Classic and RPL-LiteEPSS 1.1%CVE-2021-21280HIGHOut-of-bounds write when processing 6LoWPAN extension headersEPSS 1.1%