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GHSA-78HF-2QV8-J9H7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-04 00:00 – Updated: 2022-05-13 00:00

Details

NXP MCUXpresso SDK versions prior to 2.8.2 are vulnerable to integer overflow in SDK_Malloc function, which could allow to access memory locations outside the bounds of a specified array, leading to unexpected behavior such segmentation fault when assigning a particular block of memory from the heap via malloc.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2021-27421 (GCVE-0-2021-27421)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-03 20:24 – Updated: 2025-04-16 16:24

Title

NXP MCUXpresso SDK Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Summary

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-16 15:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

icscert icscert root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
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https://mcuxpresso.nxp.com/en/welcome	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NXP	MCUXpresso SDK	Affected: unspecified , < 2.8.2 (custom)

Credits

David Atch, Omri Ben Bassat, and Tamir Ariel from Microsoft Section 52, and the Azure Defender for IoT research group reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.

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