CVE-2021-25664 vulnerability in Siemens Products
Published on April 22, 2021
A vulnerability has been identified in Capital Embedded AR Classic 431-422 (All versions), Capital Embedded AR Classic R20-11 (All versions < V2303), Nucleus NET (All versions), Nucleus ReadyStart V3 (All versions < V2017.02.4), Nucleus ReadyStart V4 (All versions < V4.1.0), Nucleus Source Code (All versions including affected IPv6 stack). The function that processes the Hop-by-Hop extension header in IPv6 packets and its options lacks any checks against the length field of the header, allowing attackers to put the function into an infinite loop by supplying arbitrary length values.
Weakness Type
What is an Infinite Loop Vulnerability?
The program contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. If the loop can be influenced by an attacker, this weakness could allow attackers to consume excessive resources such as CPU or memory.
CVE-2021-25664 has been classified to as an Infinite Loop vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2021-25664
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Affected Versions
Siemens Capital Embedded AR Classic 431-422:- Before * is affected.
- Before V2303 is affected.
- Version All versions is affected.
- Before V2017.02.4 is affected.
- Before V4.1.0 is affected.
- Before * is affected.
Exploit Probability
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