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open-iscsi — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17437

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. When the Urgent flag is set in a TCP packet, and the stack is configured to ignore the urgent data, the stack attempts to use the value of the Urgent pointer bytes to separate the Urgent data from the normal data, by calculating the offset at which the normal data should be present in the global buffer. However, the length of this offset is not checked; therefore, for large values of the Urgent pointer bytes, the data pointer can point to memory that is way beyond the data buffer in uip_process in uip.c.

Products
open-iscsi
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.1.3-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-17437
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:49 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17437

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Dec 2020, 23:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. When the Urgent flag is set in a TCP packet, and the stack is configured to ignore the urgent data, the stack attempts to use the value of the Urgent pointer bytes to separate the Urgent data from the normal data, by calculating the offset at which the normal data should be present in the global buffer. However, the length of this offset is not checked; therefore, for large values of the Urgent pointer bytes, the data pointer can point to memory that is way beyond the data buffer in uip_process in uip.c.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-17437

open-iscsi

Fixed versions: 2.1.3-1

open-iscsi

Fixed versions: 2.1.3-1

open-iscsi

Fixed versions: 2.1.3-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:00:58.838829428Z",
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