CVE-2024-38373 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2024-38373

FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP Buffer Over-Read in DNS Response Parser

Vulnerability Description

FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP is a lightweight TCP/IP stack for FreeRTOS. FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.0 contain a buffer over-read issue in the DNS Response Parser when parsing domain names in a DNS response. A carefully crafted DNS response with domain name length value greater than the actual domain name length, could cause the parser to read beyond the DNS response buffer. This issue affects applications using DNS functionality of the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP stack. Applications that do not use DNS functionality are not affected, even when the DNS functionality is enabled. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.1.1.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 24th, 2024
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)