CVE-2017-2921

Summary

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause an integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow and resulting in denial of service and potential remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over network to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CesantaMongoose6.8affected

Weaknesses

  • denial of service

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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