CVE-2019-15134

RIOT through 2019.07 contains a memory leak in the TCP implementation (gnrc_tcp), allowing an attacker to consume all memory available for network packets and thus effectively stopping all network threads from working. This is related to _receive in sys/net/gnrc/transport_layer/tcp/gnrc_tcp_eventloop.c upon receiving an ACK before a SYN.

CVSS v3.0

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

1.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 73th percentile

Published

2019-08-17

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/12001

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-1000006
• CVE-2019-15702
• CVE-2019-16754
• CVE-2021-41061
• CVE-2024-53980
• CVE-2019-15130