VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-24338

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability37.23%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in picoTCP through 1.7.0. The DNS domain name record decompression functionality in pico_dns_decompress_name() in pico_dns_common.c does not validate the compression pointer offset values with respect to the actual data present in a DNS response packet, causing out-of-bounds writes that lead to Denial-of-Service and Remote Code Execution.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references