Medium severity5.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-8916
CVE-2020-8916
Description
A memory leak in Openthread's wpantund versions up to commit 0e5d1601febb869f583e944785e5685c6c747be7, when used in an environment where wpanctl is directly interfacing with the control driver (eg: debug environments) can allow an attacker to crash the service (DoS). We recommend updating, or to restrict access in your debug environments.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=commit 0e5d1601febb869f583e944785e5685c6c747be7
- Google LLC/wpantundv5Range: stable
Patches
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References
1- github.com/openthread/wpantund/pull/468/commits/0e5d1601febb869f583e944785e5685c6c747be7nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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