oss-security - CVE-2024-51569: Apache NimBLE: Lack of input sanitization leading to out-of-bound reads in Number of Completed Packets HCI event handler

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Message-ID: <0dba2c78-44ea-f268-c1eb-5a7484a8d9f0@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:17:26 +0000
From: Szymon Janc <janc@...che.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2024-51569: Apache NimBLE: Lack of input sanitization leading
 to out-of-bound reads in Number of Completed Packets HCI event handler 

Severity: low

Affected versions:

- Apache NimBLE through 1.7.0

Description:

Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Apache NimBLE.

Missing proper validation of HCI Number Of Completed Packets could lead to out-of-bound access when parsing HCI event and invalid read from HCI transport memory.
This issue requires broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low.
This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.7.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.8.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

Eunkyu Lee (reporter)

References:

https://mynewt.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-51569

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