High
Security advisory
The code that processes DNS responses in uIP through 1.0, as used in Contiki and Contiki-NG, does not check whether the number of responses specified in the DNS packet header corresponds to the response data available in the DNS packet, leading to an out-of-bounds read and Denial-of-Service in resolv.c.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24334
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The code that processes DNS responses in uIP through 1.0, as used in Contiki and Contiki-NG, does not check whether the number of responses specified in the DNS packet header corresponds to the response data available in the DNS packet, leading to an out-of-bounds read and Denial-of-Service in resolv.c.
osv:CVE-2020-24334
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:34.990234643Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-12-11T23:15:13.807+00:00"
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