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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2019-9004

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Eclipse Wakaama (formerly liblwm2m) 1.0, core/er-coap-13/er-coap-13.c in lwm2mserver in the LWM2M server mishandles invalid options, leading to a memory leak. Processing of a single crafted packet leads to leaking (wasting) 24 bytes of memory. This can lead to termination of the LWM2M server after exhausting all available memory.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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  • Published