High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-17445
CVE-2020-17445
Description
An issue was discovered in picoTCP 1.7.0. The code for processing the IPv6 destination options does not check for a valid length of the destination options header. This results in an Out-of-Bounds Read, and, depending on the memory protection mechanism, this may result in Denial-of-Service in pico_ipv6_process_destopt() in pico_ipv6.c.
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References
2- us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
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