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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-37601

Severity Medium
Score 4.6/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Mercedes Benz NTG (New Telematics Generation) 6. A possible heap buffer overflow exists in the user data import/export function of NTG 6 head units. To perform this attack, local access to the USB interface of the car is needed. With prepared data, an attacker can cause the User-Data service to fail. The failed service instance will restart automatically.

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published