Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. The TCP input data processing function in pico_tcp.c does not validate the length of incoming TCP packets, which leads to an out-of-bounds read when assembling received packets into a data segment, eventually causing Denial-of-Service or an information leak.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24341
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in picoTCP and picoTCP-NG through 1.7.0. The TCP input data processing function in pico_tcp.c does not validate the length of incoming TCP packets, which leads to an out-of-bounds read when assembling received packets into a data segment, eventually causing Denial-of-Service or an information leak.
osv:CVE-2020-24341
Complete source record
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