CVE-2023-39541

Summary

CVE-2023-39541 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing functionality of Weston Embedded uC-TCP-IP v3.06.01. An attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted network packet, resulting in an out-of-bounds read. Consequentially, the targeted system may become unresponsive or crash due to the denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability poses a risk as it can be triggered through IPv6 ICMPv6 packets.

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