CVE-2017-8289

2017-04-2701:41:00

mitre

www.cve.org

buffer overflow

ipv6 address

denial of service

AI Score

9.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

65.6%

JSON

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.