Use-after-free vulnerability in Contiki Operating System 3.0's cc26xx-web-demo httpd

Use-after-free vulnerability in Contiki Operating System 3.0's cc26xx-web-demo httpd

CVE-2017-7295 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

An issue was discovered in Contiki Operating System 3.0. A use-after-free vulnerability exists in httpd-simple.c in cc26xx-web-demo httpd, where upon a connection close event, the http_state structure was not deallocated properly, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the output processing function. This resulted in a board crash, which can be used to perform denial of service.

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