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CVE-2020-24334

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The code that processes DNS responses in uIP through 1.0, as used in Contiki and Contiki-NG, does not check whether the number of responses specified in the DNS packet header corresponds to the response data available in the DNS packet, leading to an out-of-bounds read and Denial-of-Service in resolv.c.

Affected products

• Uip Project Uip: through 1.0

References

• https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128
• https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128

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