CVE-2023-28116

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28116
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-28116.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-28116
Aliases
  • GHSA-m737-4vx6-pfqp
Published
2023-03-17T21:22:54.703Z
Modified
2025-11-29T14:10:05.599657Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Buffer overflow in L2CAP due to misconfigured MTU
Details

Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things (IoT) devices. In versions 4.8 and prior, an out-of-bounds write can occur in the BLE L2CAP module of the Contiki-NG operating system. The network stack of Contiki-NG uses a global buffer (packetbuf) for processing of packets, with the size of PACKETBUFSIZE. In particular, when using the BLE L2CAP module with the default configuration, the PACKETBUFSIZE value becomes larger then the actual size of the packetbuf. When large packets are processed by the L2CAP module, a buffer overflow can therefore occur when copying the packet data to the packetbuf. The vulnerability has been patched in the "develop" branch of Contiki-NG, and will be included in release 4.9. The problem can be worked around by applying the patch manually.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-120"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28116.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.0
2.1
2.2
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.3
2.4
2.5-release
2.6
2.6-rc0

3.*

3.x

develop/v3.*

develop/v3.x-fork

develop/v4.*

develop/v4.0
develop/v4.1
develop/v4.2
develop/v4.3
develop/v4.4
develop/v4.5
develop/v4.6
develop/v4.7
develop/v4.8

Other

fork

old/v2.*

old/v2.0
old/v2.1
old/v2.2
old/v2.2.1
old/v2.2.2
old/v2.2.3
old/v2.3
old/v2.4
old/v2.6

release/v4.*

release/v4.0
release/v4.1
release/v4.2
release/v4.3
release/v4.4
release/v4.5
release/v4.6
release/v4.7
release/v4.8