CVE-2017-8289

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ipv6_addr_from_str function in sys/net/network_layer/ipv6/addr/ipv6_addr_from_str.c in RIOT prior to 2017-04-25 allows local attackers, and potentially remote attackers, to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed IPv6 address.

Affected products

Riot Project Riot: through 2017.01

References

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues/6840
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/6961
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/6962
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues/6840
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/6961
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/6962

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