High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-28362
CVE-2021-28362
Description
An issue was discovered in Contiki through 3.0. When sending an ICMPv6 error message because of invalid extension header options in an incoming IPv6 packet, there is an attempt to remove the RPL extension headers. Because the packet length and the extension header length are unchecked (with respect to the available data) at this stage, and these variables are susceptible to integer underflow, it is possible to construct an invalid extension header that will cause memory corruption issues and lead to a Denial-of-Service condition. This is related to rpl-ext-header.c.
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Affected products
2- Contiki/Contikidescription
- Range: <=3.0
Patches
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References
2- github.com/contiki-os/contiki/releasesnvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
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