Medium severity5.9OSV Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16598

Description

An issue was discovered in Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1, FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), and WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component. In xProcessReceivedUDPPacket and prvParseDNSReply, any received DNS response is accepted, without confirming it matches a sent DNS request.

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Affected products

AWS/Amazon FreertosOSV
Range: v1.0.0, v1.1.0, v1.2.0, …
Amazon/FreeRTOSllm-create
Range: <=1.3.1
WITTENSTEIN/WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP componentllm-fuzzy
FreeRTOS/Freertos Plus TCPllm-fuzzy
Range: <=V10.0.1

Patches

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References

blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-details/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-put-wide-range-devices-risk-compromise-smart-homes-critical-infrastructure-systems/nvdThird Party Advisory
github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/v1.3.2/CHANGELOG.mdnvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory

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