Embedded TCP/IP Softwares Update
2798Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
9 December, 2020
● Critical
2020-2174
All
Description:
Multiple open-source embedded TCP/IP stacks has released a security update to address several vulnerabilities in the following products:
- uIP-Contiki-OS (end-of-life [EOL]), Version 3.0 and prior
- uIP-Contiki-NG, Version 4.5 and prior
- uIP (EOL), Version 1.0 and prior
- open-iscsi, Version 2.1.12 and prior
- picoTCP-NG, Version 1.7.0 and prior
- picoTCP (EOL), Version 1.7.0 and prior
- FNET, Version 4.6.3
- Nut/Net, Version 5.1 and prior
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Unauthorized disclosure of information
- Unauthorized modification
- Improper input validation
- Denial of service attack (DoS)
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review these Multiple open-source security advisories and apply the necessary updates (if applicable):
- uIP
- open-iscsi
- Contiki-OS and Contiki-NG
- PicoTCP and PicoTCP-NG
- FNET
- Nut/OS